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Side selection of the abylon SHREDDER |
Next sites are available in the abylon SHREDDER:
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Select drives |
In this list all drives on your computer are indicated and can be selected here! |
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OPTIONS: CleanUp Drive(s) |
Possible options for the drive cleaning:
- CleanUp FREE-SPACE
FREESPACE is the place on the disk, where no file store at the moment. Special software can be restore the remaining data. On activation all this place are overwrite according to the
wipe-level.
- CleanUp CLUSTER-TIPS
The hard disk is divided into many parts of the same size, the so-called sectors. Several sectors together are a cluster. Every file store in one cluster or if the file is bigger in two
or more clusters. Normally the file size is not exactly the size of one or more clusters. For this reason at the end
of the cluster is a small size free. This part is referred as CLUSTER-TIP, where rests of critical data can be store. On activation this place are overwrite according to the
wipe-level.
- CleanUp Directory- and Fileentries (NOT BY NETWORK)
On the hard disk(s) the file and folder names are stored in a central table. In order to find the file on the hard disk, also the memory location (address) stands here. On NTFS drives (only Win
NT/2000/XP/Vista) also the file attributes and in case of small files also the complete file content
store here (Master File Table MFT). During the normal deletion only the 1st character is changes of the file name. Every further information keeps on existing until the next overwriting and can be reconstructed.
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On ShutDown reset PAGEFILE |
The file pagefile.sys can't delete during the using of the computer. For this reason the file can be reset in the shutdown phase.
 This option is only available for Windows 2000, XP
and Vista and can be activate only with administrator rights.
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Wipe-level |
The wipe-level can be defined with the slide control:
- Level 0
Remove the links (correspond to the normal deletion in the File Explorer)
- Level 1
Overwrite the data 1 times (Binary Zeros)
- Level 2
Overwrite the data 3 times (DOD - Standard = 1. Random Numbers + 2. Binary F + 3. Binary Zeros)
- Level 3
Overwrite the data 7 times (DOD II - Standard = 3x Binary Zeros + 3x F + 1x Random Numbers)
- Level 4
Overwrite the data 13 times (3x Random Numbers + DOD - II + 2x Random Numbers + 1x Binary Zeros)
- Level 5
Overwrite the data 35 times (Peter Gutman Method - Description see document)
A higher wipe-level is safer but needs more time!
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SHUTDOWN |
The deletion process can need a lot of time, so that an automatic shutdown of the computer can be useful. |
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CleanUp FREE-SPACE |
This button starts the cleaning process for the selected drives. |
This option is offered only in the test phase and the registered version!