User manual ACRONIS DRIVECLEANSER 6.0

[. . . ] Acronis DriveCleanser User's Guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005. All other mentioned trademarks can be registered trademarks of their respective owners. Distribution of materials of this Guide both in original and/or edited form in published form (book) is forbidden unless prior special written permission from the author is obtained. THERE ARE NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED OBLIGATIONS, CONFIRMATIONS OR WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THOSE RELATED TO SOFTWARE MARKETABILITY AND SUITABILITY FOR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES, TO THE DEGREE OF SUCH LIMITED LIABILITY APPLICABLE BY LAW. END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT BY ACCEPTING, YOU (ORIGINAL PURCHASER) INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. [. . . ] The major feature of the Acronis DriveCleanser Deluxe version is the opportunity for you to create your own algorithms for data destruction. Detailed information on data destruction standards is given in Appendix A. 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. 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. 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. 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. For this purpose mouse-click the rectangle representing the hard disk (with device icon, disk number and its capacity). You may simultaneously select several partitions located on different disks, or several disks. 12 Chapter 2 : Wiping Hard Disks with Acronis DriveCleanser In the Post-wiping actions window you may choose what to do with partition that is the subject of data destruction. Acronis DriveCleanser offers you three opportunities: · Leave partition as is ­ that is just to destroy data according to the algorithm which you will select later; · Delete partition ­ to destroy data and remove partition; · Format ­ to destroy data and format partition (default). The Post-wiping actions window In the example below it is supposed that the switch is set to the Leave partitions as is position. [. . . ] a hard disk drive) means the impossibility of data recovery by a qualified specialist with the help of any known tools or recovery methods. This problem can be explained in the following way: Data is stored on a hard disk as a binary sequence of 1 and 0 (ones and zeros), represented by differently magnetized parts of a magnetic disk. Generally speaking, a 1 written to a hard disk is read as 1 by its controller, and 0 is read as 0. 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. [. . . ]