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I am donating some old USB sticks to a charity. I need to make sure all my personal data is deleted before I ship them out. Is it enough to format the USB stick or is there something else I should do?
It is not enough to format the disks. Many data recovery softwares can recover data / pictures from those drives after repeated formatting. You need to wipe the drive (overwrite each sector with ga...
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I think I have a virus on my USB stick. Is formatting enough to get rid of all traces of it or is there some way to make sure all data is completely erased from the drive?
You need to tally erase all data on the USB disk to make sure all traces of the virus is gone. A program like Active@ KillDisk can make sure any virus or malware in neutralized on the disk, then yo...
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My company has requested that I prepare several machines to be de-commissioned and I need to make sure all data is off these machines.
If the machines are being de-commissioned it is imperative that the data be securely wiped form the drive. There are software tools designed to do exactly that. Active@ Killdisk is a tool that will...
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I am donating my computer to a charity. They will re-install the operating system on it but I need to make sure all my personal data is deleted before I ship it out. Is it enough to format the drive or is there something else I should do?
Any data recovery software can retrieve your data after formatting. Although the charity probably won't go looking for old data, you have no idea what other uses will do. The charity might just tur...
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I think I have a virus on my computer. Is formatting enough to get rid of all traces of it or is there some way to make sure all data is completely erased from the drive?
Formatting alone is not enough. You should back up all data you need saved then use a data destruction program like our Active@ KillDisk to overwrite all sectors on the disk. Then re-install the OS...
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We need to completely erase all data from a RAID set including the raid striping information. What is the best way to do this?
You should use Active@ KillDisk to permanently erase all data on this Raid. The striping information is stored on sectors on the disk, and since Killdisk erases all sectors, it will erase those sec...
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My company has requested that I prepare several machines to be de-commissioned and I need to make sure all data is off these machines. What is the best software for ensuring no data can be recovered from these machines?
You can use our Active@ KillDisk Software. KillDisk can permanently erase the data on the disks so that the machines are safe to be disposed of and do not leak any company data.
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I think I have a virus on my computer and I want to completely erase the disk to make sure it is gone before I re-install my operating system. What is the best product for doing this?
For completely erasing an entire drive you can use Active@ Killdisk. It can destroy all data on either a logical drive or a physical drive. We recommend installing the software on another computer,...
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What is the difference between the FREE and Professional versions of KillDisk?
The Professional version, in addition to all features of the FREE version supports more than one hard drive and user can specify the number of passes for data overwriting. There are also more then ...
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How is the data erased by Active@ KillDisk?
Active@ KillDisk communicates with the system board Basic Input-Output Subsystem (BIOS) functions to access hardware directly. It uses Logical Block Addressing (LBA) access if necessary to clean FA...