File Shredder – well, fails.
DaleI had big hopes for File Shredder. It installed cleanly, and when erasing, it looked nice. But the test of any file erasing product is, does it erase files as…
Disk Wiping Test: What I’d recommend
A single pass wipe, with verify. The product I’d recommend? Personal use Active@KillDisk Free. The free version only does one pass, so there’s not much to configure. It was a…
Disk Wiping Test: Testing and other FAQs
How did you test? Restored a Ghost image of Windows XP to laptop with a 120GB hard drive. Copied 24919 files onto the laptop C: drive. (1955MB in total) Shutdown…
Disk Wiping Test: BCWipe Total WipeOut v2.3
BCWipe was the very first disk wipe program I ever used. So I have some fondness for it. Having said that, the create “Bootable USB disk” wizard had some strange…
Disk Wiping Test: O&O SafeErase 4
FAIL. Presented this screen when I tried to install it on Windows 7 (64-bit) Checking the System Requirements again: So you’ve lied to me then. FAIL.
Disk Wiping Test: CBL Data Shredder v1.0 (DOS)
CBL specialises in data recovery. I liked the layout of the wipe screen. Using the default options, CBL Data Shredder took 68 minutes to wipe our 120GB drive. Version tested:…
Disk Wiping Test: PC Inspector e-Maxx v0.95
This is a very basic program, which has not been modified since August 2003. That, in itself, isn’t a killer. Now, I’ve been taking my screenshots for this Disk Wiping…
Disk Wiping Test: East-Tec DisposeSecure v4.1
It was an effort to create the “Killdisk” for this program. I had to find copies of MS-DOS system files in order to create the CD-Rom. Some disk wipe programs…
Disk Wiping Test: CopyWipe v1.14
It worked. It took 1hr 29min. Comprehensive set of wipe options, which you can pre-customised with a configuration file. The name CopyWipe comes from the fact that the utility lets…
Disk Wiping Test: Darik’s Boot and Nuke 2.2.6
I had problems with it. It would hang at the PCI (sysfs) detection. To get DBAN to successfully boot, I had to disable the SD media card reader. Version tested:…