Secure Wipe Permanently Erases Your Confidential Files

Once you decide to discard your hard drive or resell your PC, it is mandatory to remove all personal information, passwords, and other details that you saved on it. Just deleting the data or formatting the hard drive is not sufficient, because there are powerful tools to recover all deleted data. Therefore, you need to permanently wipe all data from the hard drive.

Secure Wipe is a small, free utility that allow you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. So, no one can recover your personal or important data from it.

How to use Secure Wipe?

After installation, run the tool. From the setting menu, select an erasing option (e.g. Gutmann 35). Then from the ‘Eraser’ option select a folder or file that contains your personal details. Then click ‘Erase’ button to erase the data.

Secure Wipe can be downloaded (917Kb) free at this link.

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