Techniques to Completely Delete Everything on Hard Drive!

Are you planning to upgrade to a newer and better computer or planning to sell your old computer or give it to charity or for such similar things. In any of these condition you must take the backup of all your data and transfer it on your new computer and then securely delete every file present on your old computer. Its because the files are your personal files and if these files went into wrong hands that it can be harmful for you.Consider a situation where you are a bank employee and the computer are getting upgraded but the old computer include very sensitive and private details about money and clients of the bank and this means the data must be backup and then the computer hard drive should be cleaned.There are few common methods of data deletion. The most common step that people use is to select all the personal files and delete all of them. Once done, the files goes into Recycle Bin (windows) or Trash Bin (Mac) and then it is required to empty trash. This will remove all the file pointers and make the file inacccessible by operating system and it means that you can not access those files again. But it does not mean that the data is not recoverable. Actually the file is still present on the disk till it get replaced by another file and this still gives the chance of data recovery. There are several programs that can recover deleted files from the hard drive. The latest versions of these programs are so capable that it can do the recovery of the file even if it has been deleted.How to wipe using Hard Drive Wipe ApplicationSo it means still it is required to securely delete the data and this can be done now using the professional Hard Drive Wipe Application. This application has different algorithms and methods which can actually delete the files from the hard drive. The most famous are 7-Pass and 35-Pass methods. In these methods, the application writes binary data on complete hard drive (7 times on 7 pass and 35 times on 35-Pass method). This is a completely secure method that can completely remove the files from the system and the hard drive will not have any kind of data.

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