Technical data

5.11 Termination of the deletion process
• The medium has been deleted completely: in case the deletion process has been finished
without an abort (even if sector errors occurred).
• The deletion process has been aborted: in case the deletion process has been aborted be-
fore its regular termination.
Furthermore, the final report contains the following information:
Field Meaning
Medium
deleted drive or deleted partition
Method
applied deletion method
Passes
number of runs initiated
Sectors deleted
total number of deleted sectors
Write errors
Total number of write errors occurred during the deletion process.
Write errors, which occur during a verification run, are exclusively
counted as verification errors.
Verification errors
Total number of errors occurred during a verification run. This in-
cludes read errors as well as non-identical data during comparison.
This field is not shown, if no verification run was started.
Runtime
Time required for the whole process, i.e. for all deletion and verifica-
tion runs (if executed).
With [Report] you can create a complete deletion report of the preceding deletion process
(QV). You can also start another deletion process by clicking [Delete another medium] or end
the program by clicking [Quit HDShredder] (5.12.2 Good-bye screen).
5.11.4 Deletion report
You can generate a complete deletion report from the dialog window containing the final re-
port (5.11.3 Final report). The deletion report contains a complete and comprehensive de-
scription of the previous deletion process and can serve as proof of the completed deletion to-
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fig. 13: Final report after a
successful deletion run
fig. 14: Final report after the
abort of the deletion run