MiniTool Drive Wipe is a piece of free drive wipe software and supports all commonly seen hard disks, like IDE disk, SATA disk, SCSI disk, and USB external disk. By using it, users can wipe data in a disk or partition easily. Once data are wiped, there is no method for recovery. Therefore, data security can be ensured to the largest extent, and privacy leakage can be avoided effectively.

Operational principle

Wiping is the process of continuously writing some specific data to a hard disk or partition so as to overwrite original data stored on the disk or partition. Once wiping is completed, original data can not be recovered by any data recovery method.

Two wiping modules

Free drive wipe software owns 2 different wiping modules, and users can choose different modules according to different situations to perform wiping.

• Wipe Partition: wipe a specific partition without bringing any damage to other disk partitions.
• Wipe Disk: wipe a specific disk.

5 wiping methods

Free drive wipe software provides 5 different wiping methods:

• Fill Sectors with Zero: wipe original data via filling sectors with "0".
• Fill Sectors with One: wipe original data through filling sectors with "1".
• Fill sectors with "0" & "1": fill sectors with "0" and "1" to wipe original data.
• DoD 5220.22-M (3 passes): wipe original data through filing sectors with specific data for 3 times.
• DOD 5220.28-STD (7 passes): fill sectors with specific data for 7 times to wipe original data.