Active@ KillDisk Freeware vs. Active@ KillDisk Professional. Windows installer. KillDisk legacy ver. 10 is also available for download and purchase. Dec 22, 2011 Active KillDisk Professional Suite - a powerful and compact software that allows us to erase all data on hard and floppy drives completely, including the.
KillDisk for Windows 5.5 (Build 5.5.5) 18.18 Mb Active KillDisk-Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility. Active Kill Disk Professional conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data. You can be sure that once you wipe a disk with Active Kill Disk, sensitive information is destroyed forever.
Active@ KillDisk is a Windows utility designed to help users securely overwrite and delete all data on physical drives or logical partitions, as well erase the unused disk space. It sports a clean and straightforward interface that gives users the possibility to perform one or more cleaning operations at the same time and view information about the detected drive. The program offers support for IDE / ATA / SATA / eSATA / SSD / SCSI hard drives and lets you erase data from fixed disks, floppies, ZIP drives, USB Flash Cards and USB external devices. Active@ KillDisk comes packed with various cleaning algorithm, such as DoD 5220.22-M, Gutmann, and others. What’s more, you can scan the system volume and view the folders and files that exist or were deleted, preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive, wipe out free clusters and unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by a file, as well as perform cleaning operations for MFT records. Additionally, Active@ KillDisk keeps a log which offers details about the entire process and possible errors, and lets you save the hardware information to XML file format.
Last but not least, you can make the application ignore disk writing errors, specify the read and write retry attempts, send email notifications and configure the SMTP settings, use command-line parameters, as well as perform the cleaning process from bootable CDs/DVDs or USBs. During our testing we have noticed that Active@ KillDisk carries out the cleaning process successfully. Depending on the size of the disk, it might take some time to finish the task.
At the end of the job, you can view a report which can be saved to a file. All in all, Active@ KillDisk provides an intuitive layout and useful cleaning algorithms for making sure data is permanently erased from the computer.