New! Fingerprint (sanitizing status: date, erase method, etc) can be placed to first disk’s sector & displayed after boot up the disk.New! Universal Boot Disk Creator for CD/USB media for Windows, Linux & DOS targets.New! Boot Disk Creator can pre-configure KillDisk startup process on the Boot Disk using Command Line parameters.

New! True parallel erasing of multiple disks at the same time, independent erase & wipe sessions.Regardless of the type of operating system (DOS, Windows, Linux, and Unix) and file systems, Active KillDisk will completely erase all data without the possibility of recovery. Access to data is done at the physical level through a basic input / output system (BIOS), bypassing the logical drive structure. You can run the program from a bootable DOS diskette, flash card, or CD drive. This program uses the US Department of Defense data deletion method 5220.22 M. It works with disks through the BIOS in DOS mode directly (from a boot floppy) and overwrites any available hard drive sector. Obviously though you then lose the drive.Active KillDisk Ultimate 12.0.25 (1.03 Gb) is a program for complete and irreversible reliable removal and secure formatting of all data from the hard disk, including the file system (NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12) and logical partitions. So you're best off doing a combination of both of these methods.Īlternately, just get the damn thing shredded. Kinda sucks when you find a cheap ebay knockoff SSD installed by the last guy, that now needs destruction. But again, you don't have visibility here, so you have no idea if the drive is actually doing whatever the fuck you tell it to. It's better to send the ATA command Secure Erase Unit or the NVMe command Format NVM to the device and let it either replace it's encryption key (fast), or purge all it's cells if it's not self-encrypted (slower). So even if you 'fill' the drive with random 1s and 0s, you still don't touch that extra space, and don't really have visibility to be sure. Change something, it can actually saves the new data in the unallocated area, then flip the pointer.

SSD's actually have a little extra storage space they don't make visible to the OS for changes.

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