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.

The mass media and the Internet are full of stories about used computers being sold with hard disk drives containing confidential data ¡ª banking account information, credit card numbers, social security data, human resource, accounting and other internal documents, or even restricted information concerning a company's board of directors!

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 ¡ª 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. Acronis has a long history of supporting all Microsoft operating systems and now continues that tradition with full Microsoft Vista Support for Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0!

Acronis Drive Cleanser Key features:

New! Microsoft Vista Support - Support for Microsoft's latest and most robust operating system to date

Securely deletes all the data and partitions on a hard disk

Full review of the results of hard disk wiping through built-in DiskViewer utility

Extremely easy to use Windows XP-like wizard-driven interface

ta destruction standards
The Acronis Drive Cleanser application offers the guaranteed destruction of confidential information on hard magnetic disks with the help of special algorithms. These algorithms guarantee compliance with most known national 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

In addition to algorithms corresponding to national standards, Acronis Drive Cleanser supports predefined algorithms proposed by well-known and authoritative specialists in the field of information security:

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

Peter Gutmann's algorithm - data is destroyed with 35 passes

Bruce Schneier's algorithm - data is destroyed with 7 passes