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Paragon Disk Wiper 12 Compact (English) werd aangeboden als een giveaway op 10 juli 2013
Simply erasing or reformatting your hard disk drive may not be enough to prevent your sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. Disk Wiper Compact provides skilled resources and comprehensive wiping tools to safeguard your personal identity or company trade secrets!
Limitations: Paragon Boot Media Builder (stand-alone wizard that helps to prepare a WinPE-based bootable environment) is not available, but you can create and use Linux/DOS-based Recovery media with built-in Recovery Media Builder.
Technical Support: During the Giveaway period Paragon Software provides technical support at www.giveawayoftheday.com. Please, post your questions if you have any troubles while downloading, registering and using the software. Paragon Software’s support team will reply you as soon as possible.
Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP Home Edition, XP Professional (x32/x64); Intel Pentium or compatible, 300 MHz or higher processor; RAM: 256 MB of RAM; Disk space: 125 Mb; Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
116 MB
$39.95
The safest tool for hard drive partitioning! Partitioning is not for amateurs. That is why millions of people have trusted our safe, stable technology and professional software solutions for over 15 years. Our latest Free 12 Edition easily organizes your hard drive and redistributes free space to enhance system performance.
Take complete control of your PC’s safety. Based on solid commercial backup and recovery software from Paragon, the new Backup & Recovery 2013 Free Edition will give you a rich set of features that you can trust.
Unique, all-in-one suite to completely protect, maintain and manage your PC!
26% THUMBS UP only? Must be a JOKE!
Supports the latest HDD standards (Advanced Format Drive), 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives, as well as 10 different disk sanitization methods. Must have tool especially for those who often buy & sell their PCs/Laptops and don't like the idea that somebody may have access to their sensitive files using data recovery software.
The big downside I can see is the size of this tool (116 MB is simply too big for a wipe disk).
BEST FREE ALTERNATIVES
* Puran Wipe Disk (==> My Personal First Choice)
Amazing FREE APP, which is part of the excellent PC tuneup utility "Puran Utilities", designed to completely wipe out everything on your HD including the file system and the free space, so that no data can be recovered afterwards using any recovery data software out there. It can erase multiple disks with one mouse click using 1 pass, 3 pass and 7 pass deletion.
http://www.puransoftware.com/Wipe-Disk.html
* Darik's Boot and Nuke (==> My Personal First Choice but definitely NOT for noobs)
Great Open Source tool running from a bootable disc and very suitable for sanitizing more than a single drive for bulk or emergency data destruction, since it can automatically erase all found partitions.
In fact, if you type "autonuke" at the prompt, this software erase ALL DRIVES without confirmation.
http://www.dban.org
* HDD Erase
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
* Parted Magic
Best Linux bootable CD environments for partitioning and erasing hard drives. Great tool especially suitable for wiping out SSD drives.
http://partedmagic.com
http://www.corsair.com/applicationnote/secure-erase
* Disk Cleaner Free
Fantastic FREE system optimization tool which can scan and detect all those junk files usually missed by other similar utilities out there, keeping you PC error-free and as fast as brand-new.
Can clean all hard drives of your computer, flash-memories as well as USB flash drives, with the ability to completely wipe out the whole HD (including separate partitions) for good, using DOD, NSA, Guttmann, and GOST algorithms.
http://www.disk-cleaner.net
To completely erase individual files and folders, rather than an entire HD:
* Portable Files Terminator
Great FREE & PORTABLE Italian app designed to completely delete for good any sensitive data stored in your PC, by using the following 8 shredding methods:
One pass Pseudorandom
British HMG IS5
Two pass Russian GOST P50739-95
Three pass US DoD 5220.22M
Seven pass German VSITR
Canadian RCPM TSSIT OPS-II
Bruce Schneier
35-pass Peter Gutmann
http://elefantsoftware.weebly.com/files-terminator.html
* (Portable) Eraser
http://eraser.heidi.ie
Now, not many people out there know that formatting an HD is NOT the most secure way to remove files and folders from thier computer, since the process may often leave behind a lot of traces...
But hey...this is not true for GIOVANNI ==> LOL ==> How about you dudes?
* HDD Low Level Format Tool (==> Can even quickly wipe partitions and MBR data with ease)
This FREE GEM is a must have tool to use in case you experience constant data corruption, virus intrusion within the MBR or bad sectors in your HDs.
HDD Low Level Format Tool re-initializes the hard drive to its original FACTORY CONFIGURATION (Yes, you heard me right, dudes!!) by writing a zero byte to its each and every location on the disk.
This fully and irreversibly erases all data (if present) from your disk. Low Level Formatting also hides the bad sectors in order to create a clean and error-free surface for your data.
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool
Please note that you can NOT use this magic FREE TOOL to format (and wipe) your disk if you run it from the same disk, as it needs to run while the disk is not in use by your OS.
So if you want to use this tool to format your C (Windows) partition, you will need to use a live CD or DVD with a WinPE or LiveXP or Live7 on it. In this case, to safely format or wipe your C (Windows) partition, just use the freeware Live CD MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
Enjoy!!
#1 and #2: For truly reliable disk wiping nothing beats a blowtorch and an angle grinder
I know my opinion will not be popular but I don't see this publisher as being any different than Ashampoo. Both of them offer programs that you can download and install here. But if you go to their site you can't find these offerings. They only exists here.
While Paragon's offering are good, solid programs that perform well. I think the programs are way to large for the functions they perform and this one is no exception. 116 MB is way too large for a disk wipe. Check this link for a free and portable alternative...
http://www.diskwipe.org/
Thank you GOTD team for all of your great work but I will have to pass on this one. See you all tomorrow.
Re #4,
The commercially available Paragon software contain Microsoft components, that cannot be given away freely. We cannot expect Paragon to pay the MS licences for us.
The last time this program was offered, Paragon explained why the file is so large: it contains both 32 and 64 bit software.
I was somewhat surprised to see on their website that the Gutmann Method of disk wiping was still included, the reason being that apparently it is ineffective of modern drives. He wrote about it in the following article:-
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
Apparently new discs need different methods because of the density levels, an interesting discussion can be found at the following link:-
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html
It is so important that when you discard an old computer and its hard drive that it is worth taking some effort of ensuring that you are using the most effective method of erasure. And when you have erased data that it is tested with a decent recovery program to be sure.
@6 mask
Ik citeer:
"mijn opslagmedia worden nooit en de never verkocht
maar gaan direct de shredder in."
Allereerst: iets wat kapot is verkoop je niet en als het niet
kapot is dan gewoon bewaren.
De shredder in kan altijd nog.
Vraag:
Als de opslagmedia (vaste schijf) niet kapot is, maar
in een afgeschreven computer zit,dan is er toch veel al
de mogelijkheid om er een externe schijf van te maken??
Dan zou dit mijn eerste optie zijn.
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Zekers Gunther .
Eenvoud siert de mens.
Eerlijkheid ook en dus bij deze "petje af" voor je 27 jaar met duizenden computers en de daarbij behorende tunnelvisie en zelfgenoegzaamheid.
Soit,mijn pakkie an niet. :mrgreen:
Progje van Paragon werkt niet super snel en eraser doet het dan ook wel.
Na 'n bezoekje aan de rommelmarkt,heb ik ooit eens voor de gein met wat weggegooide en overbodige HDD's "gespeeld".
Resultaat,idd hele levensjaren van 'n familie gerecoverd.
Persoonlijk inzicht:
mijn opslagmedia worden nooit en de never verkocht maar gaan direct de shredder in.
ff met een sterke electromagneet bewerken kan nooit kwaad.
@ 4 Joke,
prima advies,vooral dat uit elkaar halen.Die 2 super sterke magneetjes zijn het al waard.. :blink:
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@3 : Het bijvoorbeeld gratis en zowat wereldwijd allermeest gebruikte freeware tooltje CCleaner heeft deze functie al zo lang aan boord. Van nieuwsgierige buurman tot vierdubbel CIA-proof ... Neen, dit is geen 39,95 euro waard als het gratis kan. En CCleaner, van de heren van Piriform, kan je wel degelijk vertrouwen ja. Eenvoud en basiskennis siert de mens, ook de leek ... sprak 27 jaar ervaring met duizenden verkochte computers. En anders boor je maar, conform het advies van Joke, als je dusdanig belangrijke informatie op je HD's hebt geplaatst. PS : boor nog maar even verder dan 3 als de staatsveiligheid het zeker niet mag oppikken welke eventuele top-geheimen je digitaal trachtte te verbergen ... hahaha. Wees niet zo naïef en leer je basis eerst beste man.
Moraal : CCleaner is zowaar een verplichte tool op elke pc, dus als je de basis zou beheersen, waarom zou je dan *absoluut* deze willen ... terwijl CCeaner ondermeer 'de aders van je pc' ook schoon komt te houden en daarnaast nog meer functionaliteit komt te bieden als register-opschoning, ...?? Deze aangeboden tool van 40 euro heeft geen bestaansrecht binnen de markt, Paragon of niet.
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Wanneer je harddisk weggooit drie gaten met de boormachine dwars er door heen jagen....(Uitleg van een vroegere versie) Een betere oplossing is, die HD uiteen halen voor studiemateriaal. Dat weet men tenminste hoe die dingen in elkaar steken. Heb ik gedaan met een HD van 10 MB.
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Dit programma ga ik absoluut binnenhalen. Heb hier maar liefst 4 oude computers die afgedankt gaan worden. Daar alleen al om.
Maar ook omdat ik een groot vertrouwen in Paragon heb. Hun partitiemanager gebruik ik al jaren, nou ja, niet vaak natuurlijk, maar zelfs bij mij als leek werkt dat altijd voortreffelijk.
Dus ben er blij mee. Fijne aanwinst !
Gerard bedankt voor de NL informatie !
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Nederlandstalige informatie van Paragon Disk Wiper 11
http://nl.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-disk-wiper-11/
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