Drive Wipe- Preserve Your Identity From Being Theft

Identity theft is the fastest growing offense over the last several years. The amount of information stored on the computer system is a perfect repository for the criminals to endeavor identity theft.

When somebody either sells or discards a computer, hard drive, or the external storage media, he/she doesn’t properly sanitize the media, but rather formats the disk or delete the data, falsely considering all the data has gone.

There is a false impression on those, unfamiliar with the internal workings of the computers, that formatting the drive and deleting files removes the data completely. Think back and try to recall all the files you have deleted more than the past ten years. Did you ever remove financial data, back account numbers, credit card data or other personal information?

What about scanned documents like mortgage paperwork, birth certificates, driving license, or pay stubs? What happened to the computer or hard drives, which you think you removed the files from? Did you sell or donate your computer? Who is using that computer since and what might he/she has found? These all are the important and frightening questions.

The formatting and deleting only removes the file or folder pointers from the file system table. These pointers point to the exact location where the file or folder is stored and operating system accesses it from there. When the pointer gets deleted, the operating system can’t locate the file and the file becomes inaccessible.

But these files can be recovered very easily using the data recovery software or data recovery service solutions by the criminals. When they recover your precious and personal information from the hard drive, they can misuse it can make a big harm to you.

To completely remove the data from the hard drive, it is required to overwrite the deleted data. It should be done several times to make it completely impossible to recover the data. There are some tools which overwrite all the addressable sectors of the hard drive with random binary digits, eradicating the slack space and the stored data.

These specially designed tools are known as drive wipe software. Drive wipe software do the complete job of perfectly wiping out the data from your hard drive and making it nearly impossible to recover.

Stellar Disk Wipe is the most powerful and the highly developed drive wipe software which is capable of wiping entire hard drive in a single go. This software performs up to 35 passes to ensure complete wipe hard drive and uses 29 different wiping algorithms.

This drive wipe software allows you to select a drive wipe algorithm by yourself. This hard drive wipe software is usable for Windows and Intel based Mac computers. Arbitrary writing of the binary digits is performed by this software to preserve your identity from being theft.