User manual ACRONIS DRIVECLEANSER 6.0

[. . . ] Acronis DriveCleanser User's Guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005. Linux is a registered trademark owned by Linus Torvalds. Windows is a registered trademark owned by Microsoft Corporation. All other mentioned trademarks can be registered trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] «Hard Disk Wiping algorithms» to the current Guide. Software usage conditions The conditions for Acronis DriveCleanser software usage are described in the «License agreement», included with this package. The supplied registration card is the confirmation of your legal purchase and usage of Acronis DriveCleanser on your system. Each registration card has its own unique registration number. Under current legislation the «License agreement» is considered a contract between a user (you) and a software manufacturer (Acronis, Inc. ). The contract has legal effect and its violation may entail a court examination. Illegal use and/or distribution of this software will be prosecuted. 6 Introduction Technical support Users who have legally purchased and registered their copy of Acronis Disk Director Suite will receive free technical support from Acronis. If you have installation or working problems that you can't solve by yourself using this manual and the readme. txt file, email the technical support team. You will need to provide the serial number of your Acronis Disk Director Suite copy bundled with the program. Before you do this, you will have to register your copy at: http://www. acronis. com/homecomputing/my/products/registration/ . Support URL: http://www. acronis. com/homecomputing/my/support/ Acronis DriveCleanser 7 Chapter 1. Installing Acronis DriveCleanser and Getting Started 1. 1 Acronis DriveCleanser system package Acronis DriveCleanser system package includes: · An installation CD, · This guide, · License agreement, · Registration card, · Advertising materials. 1. 2 Installation To install the Acronis DriveCleanser: 1. Insert the Acronis DriveCleanser installation CD into CD-ROM drive and start the installation procedure. Carefully follow the installation program instructions on the screen. After making your installation choices and copying of Acronis DriveCleanser files onto your hard disk, you will be offered to create a bootable diskette or CD-R/W (you may omit this step if you have purchased the boxed product that contains a bootable CD). While DriveCleanser works in Windows, you can also wipe a hard disk with Linux or other PC operating system. The screen informs you about the basic features of the software; they are: 1. Wiping selected partitions of a hard disk (disks) with one of the predefined wiping algorithms; 2. Creating and using custom wiping algorithms. The Acronis DriveCleanser welcome window All actions on hard disks are performed on the basis of scripts created during the dialogue with the user. No data destruction occurs, until you execute the created script. You may return to a previous stage of script creation, from any stage of working with the software, and select other partitions and/or disks to wipe or to change the wiping algorithm. Acronis DriveCleanser 11 The following window will contain the list of hard disks connected to your computer, and their partitions with main parameters (disk capacities and partition sizes, file systems and labels). The list of computer's hard disks (with partitions) Next you will need to select the partitions on hard disks to be designated for data destruction. Mouse-click the rectangle representing the hard disk partition. [. . . ] However, of you write 1 over 0, the result is conditionally 0. 95 and vice versa ­ if 1 is written over 1 the result is 1. 05. These differences are irrelevant for the controller. However using special equipment, one can easily read the «underlying» sequence of 1 and 0. It only requires specialized software and inexpensive hardware to read data «deleted» this way by analyzing magnetization of hard disk sectors, residual magnetization of track sides and/or by using current magnetic microscopes. [. . . ]