Want to get rid of your external hard drive data forever? Are you willing to lose the most critical data that you have saved on your external hard drive? It is possible to erase external hard drive completely with the help of Remo Drive Wipe software. You will be unsuccessful in annihilating your external hard drive if you go for formatting your drive.
It is true that after formatting an external hard drive one loses crucial data such as pictures, videos and many other media files. But data lost due to formatting is recoverable. Data is not lost permanently when one performs formatting action on the external hard drive. If that data is overwritten more and more times by some new data then the result would be permanent deletion of that data. But it is impossible to overwrite the data many times manually. One cannot keep overwriting the data on external Hard disk drive many times. So the need for an external drive data wiper arises.
This software is capable of overwriting your external hard drive data many times. It uses nine different data sanitizing standards which overwrite your drive data with some random and fixed values. These data destructing patterns are recommended by different law enforcement and governmental agencies. Let us go through each one of these data erasing standards,
- Fast Zero Overwrite: This pattern is capable of overwriting the target area with the fixed value which is (0*00) on each and every sector
- Random Overwrite: This standard is capable enough to overwrite the target area with random values which could be any number between 1 to 9.
- US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22 - M): At first, this pattern overwrites the target area by a fixed value such as (0*00). Then it overwrites the target area by the complement of (0*00) which is (0*ff). Finally the target area gets overwritten by random values.
- US Navy, NAVSO P- 5239-26 – RLL: This pattern also overwrites the target area with fixed values like (0xffffffff) at first, then with values like (0xbfffffff). At last the target area is overwritten with random values
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization – NATO standard: This data sanitizing standard overwrites the target area 7 times.
- German : VSITR- Capable of overwriting the target area with three alternating patterns of zeroes and ones. Lastly the area is overwritten with a random character.
- DOD standard 5220.28 STD- The target area is overwritten 27 times using this data destructing pattern.
- Peter Gutmann Secure Deletion- With the help of this pattern it is possible to overwrite the target area 35 times.
- US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22 – M) + Gutmann Method: This one overwrites the target area 38 times. This pattern is actually the combination of Peter Gutmann Secure Deletion and US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22 - M).
Among these 9 patterns, Fast Zero Overwrite, Random Overwrite and US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22 - M) provide low security to the data in your external hard drive. Where as US Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22 – M) + Gutmann Method, Peter Gutmann Secure Deletion and DOD standard 5220.28 STD patterns provide high security to your crucial data. The remaining data shredding patterns which are US Navy, NAVSO P- 5239-26 – RLL, North Atlantic Treaty Organization – NATO standard and German : VSITR provide medium security to the data.
This tool employs these nine patterns to erase folders completely from external hard drives in very short time. With the help of this tool you can destroy files and folders that are stored on hard drives of different manufacturing brands such as Kingston, Toshiba and Transcend.
Steps that you need to follow to erase external hard drive completely:
Install and run this product on your Windows computer. Choose the external drive to be wiped or erased. Select the data shredding pattern to wipe your external hard disk. Click on the "Proceed" button to begin the wiping process. After the completion of this process your external hard drive will be found as empty.