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• In the Main Menu: select Wizards > Wipe Hard Disk or Partition…

Wizard Setup

The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation:

• The hard disk/partition to wipe. Select a hard disk/partition the data of which you want to destroy.

• Wipe mode. This section enables to switch between two options:

- Wipe out all data. Select the option to irreversibly destroy all on-disk data of the selected object.

- Clear (wipe) free space. Select the option to destroy any remnants of deleted files/directories left on disk

without affecting the used data.

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The Clear Free Space operation is available only for Logical and Primary partitions of known

file systems.

• Wipe method. Here you can select a specific data erasure algorithm or create a customized method by marking

the appropriate option.

- In case you preferred to use a specific algorithm, the next page of the wizard enables to get detailed

information on the selected algorithm, choose whether to carry out residual data verification or not specifying

the percentage of sectors to check and estimate the time required to accomplish the operation.