Active@ KillDisk gives you a fast, easy way to delete your files and folders for good if you're getting rid of your hard drive. While it's not as advanced as some other permanent deletion programs, it offers enough bonus features to keep you interested. The professional, welcoming look earns it a few extra points.
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We have been using this to satisfy data wiping requirements at the university before disposing of old equipment. It is very simple to use so we are able to have workstudies wiping the drives. It does take several hours on a 3 pass wipe, but I don't think anything can be done about the time due to the nature of what the software has to do. It would be nice if there were audible or more obvious visual prompts that a wipe has completed, so the workstudy can see at a glance without looking at the small status window.
University IT technician, Austin, Texas
Simply deleting files, or even formatting the disk, does nothing to stop a determined snoop. This program, a powerful set of tools, promises to do something much more useful. ...... once the program has done its job, there is no turning back.
Ian Harac, PCWorld
I cannot tell you how excited I was to get the software to recover 4.6TB of data that was accidentally deleted from a disk. Your product is absolutely awesome, just the best. I didn't care how long it was going to take, just that I could get the data back. I am so impressed with the product. So, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Robyn Knorr, Australia
Using your file recovery software, recovery of 18 Gigs of data, from a partition that lost the drives Master Boot Record, was very easy, and was transferred over to another separate drive, so the original drive could be re-formatted and have the files put back, all within an hour. You saved all my data, and I thank you making this program available. I'm very impressed with it.
Howard R., New York
Simply deleting files, or even formatting the disk does nothing to stop a determined snoop. This program, a powerful (and free!) set of tools, promises something much more useful. Once the program has done its job, there is no turning back.
Ian Harac, PCWorld
We have been using this to satisfy data wiping requirements at the university before disposing of old equipment. It is very simple to use so we are able to have workstudies wiping the drives. It does take several hours on a 3 pass wipe, but I don't think anything can be done about the time due to the nature of what software has to do.
A University IT tech, Texas
Just a note to let you know that after a catastrophic failure of my XP machine, I was able to create a boot disk on my Windows 7 machine and successfully restore the complete drive from a previous backup on an external drive. Great program! Thanks very much.
Bud Lorch, Canada