User opinions for Hard Drive Eraser
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Hard Drive Eraser enables you to securely delete the content of your hard drive or selected partitions. It supports the DoD 5220-22.M, US Army and Guttman algorithms to assure permanent data removal ...
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Recommended by users 100% of the time (3 total)
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Not bad... |
9/25/2010 02:31:00 |
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Posted by: hrwasp (65) |
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The software is not a bad little but it takes
entirely way tooooo long to do a quick format and
DoD wipe. A one gig flash drive took over 15
minutes. I guess if you were not in a pinch this
would not be bad. 22805
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Simple and direct... |
9/20/2010 11:26:00 |
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Posted by: queensknight (2) |
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Small standalone app useful for securely erasing non OS drives. A progress bar or progress indicator of some sort would be appreciated in future versions. 22794
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Useful and unusual program... |
1/27/2009 13:36:00 |
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Posted by: ianmacm (121) |
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It has to be pointed out that the program runs within Windows, so it cannot erase the partition from which it is running. This means that complete erasure of a hard drive system (eg prior to selling or donating the computer) is impossible. The freeware DBAN (which is bootable) can do this, but an area where Hard Drive Eraser scores is that it will recognize USB hard drives and Flash memory devices attached to the computer, which DBAN will not. This makes HDE a useful utility to have when erasure of external devices is required. The default setting for erasure is DoD short (3 pass random overwrite), and others can be selected. As usual, care is needed in backing up any important files before using a file wiping tool. 20514
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