Layouts Advanced Features

Once a Disk Bay Layout is created there are a number of actions that can be performed to format or manipulate the layout and appearance of the disks in the KillDisk application.

Disk Lock

In order to prevent accidental erasing of important disks KillDisk supports locking of disks. Once a disk is locked, no write operations are allowed to be performed on the drive. To do this simply find the disk that needs to be locked and execute Bay Locked menu command from the Change disk bay attributes drop down menu:

Figure 1: Locking a Disk

Clone Source Lock

Disks that are planned to be used as master copy for Disk Clone could be marked in Disk Bay Layout by selecting Disk Bay and clicking Clone Source from the Change disk bay attributes drop down menu. Hence, disks marked this way will be protected from accidental destruction and also will be available in devices' list as source for disk cloning.

Auto Erase

Auto Erase feature is designed to speed up disk wiping process in scenario when many disks must be erased with the same erase attributes with minimum user interaction. When disk is inserted in a Bay marked as Auto Erase then disk erase procedure will start without any introduction or confirmation dialogs. However, you will see 30 seconds countdown started on Disk Bay and may cancel this action by selecting Disk Bay widget and clicking Stop button in View's toolbar or in context menu.

Figure 2: Auto Erase Enabled
CAUTION:

Use this feature with extreme caution - make sure the inserted disk is intended to be erased and appeared in a right Bay. You will have 30 seconds to abort disk erasure.

Saving and Reverting Changes

Click Done button to commit any changes to the application View layout.
Note:

Done will apply current change to the application session so the changes will be seen in the Disk Bays view and even be loaded in future application launch. These changes will not affect the .dbl file.

Click Cancel to revert any changes you made to the layout.