The proven solution to securely obliterate hard disks

Getting rid of an old PC, upgrading to a new hard drive, returning a leased computer, or redeploying a PC within your company? It is truly imperative to completely destroy all data from the old hard disk.

This confidential data should not only be safeguarded according to the strict rules, but it should also be reliably and completely destroyed when needed. You know you have deleted all the financial, corporate, and personal files, and even formatted and deleted hard disk partitions — but are they really gone from the drive? The answer is NO!

Acronis DriveCleanser 6.0 guarantees the complete destruction of data on selected partitions and/or entire disks.

Key features

• Securely deletes all the data and partitions on a hard disk
• Allows to format the disk drive, partition it, and/or delete selected partitions along with the disk wiping process
• Full review of the results of hard disk wiping through built-in DiskViewer utility
• Extremely easy to use Windows XP-like wizard-driven interface

Data destruction standards

National data destruction standards:

• American: DoD 5220.22-M
• American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL)
• American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM)
• German: VSITR
• Russian: Russian Standard, GOST P50739-95

Two far more powerful pre-defined algorithms offered by top information security experts:

• Peter Gutmann's algorithm
• Bruce Schneier's algorithm

Simple, but fast algorithm to use in less important situations:

• Fast

A special option to create custom algorithms and save them for future usage.

Operating systems supported

System requirements

PC-compatible computer with Pentium processor or similar, 32 MB RAM, VGA monitor, a mouse (recommended).