You cannot reuse the device after it undergoes the NIST-destroy mode. NIST-Destroy: It is the process of physical destruction with advanced techniques to avoid any possibility of data recovery. NIST-Purge: Physical and logical techniques are applied to prevent data recovery via any lab technology. NIST-Clear: In the NIST Clear mode, data be wiped from all user-addressable locations with logical techniques.

It has three different categories to wipe data completely from the disk. At present, most organizations prefer NIST standard data wipe in the USA. In the NIST wipe method, the tool will use the strongest overwrite pattern to completely delete data from the drive. The NIST (National Institute for Standards & Technology), 800-88 was released in 2006 & later revised in 2012. Pass-3: In the third pass, the software will overwrite all address paths with a random pattern.įinally, the tool will verify the final overwrite pass. Pass-2: In the second pass, all addressable locations will be overwritten with binary One value. Pass-1: In the first pass, the tool overwrites all paths and locations with binary Zeros. The US DOD Data Wipe method usually implements three passes: This method completely complies with the data erasure security specification, i.e., 5220.22 M for the removal of data from the US Department of Defense. More passes make the erasure of data more secure but it will also take much time in wiping information. After wiping data with Zero Fill, most data recovery software fails to retrieve data from a single pass. In this approach, the software will overwrite data with a Zero value. By default, the software will provide a DIY data sanitization process for the Data Wipe method. Users can apply Random Data Wipe with Zero or 1 Pass.

However, in some cases, the random data erase method overwrites the data with other random characters as well. In the Random Data Wipe technique, users can overwrite the existing data stored in a disk with Zero & Ones.

Apply filters and click the Wipe button to start the process.

Select from the list of Multiple Military-standard Disk Wipe modes.

Choose the items that you wish to erase from the list displayed in its panel.

Users have the choice to select Logical Drive also.

Install & Run the software on Windows PC.

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