Active KillDisk is a quality security software that destroys data permanently from any computer that can be started using a DOS bootable floppy disk, USB Flash or CD-ROM. Access to the drive's data is made on the physical level via the Basic Input-Output Subsystem (BIOS), bypassing the operating systems logical drive structure organization. Regardless of the operating system, file systems or type of machine, this utility can destroy all data on all storage devices. Thus it does not matter operating systems and file systems located on the machine, it can be DOS, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP, Linux, Unix for PC. Active KillDisk Professional conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. You can be sure that once you wipe a disk with Active KillDisk, sensitive information is destroyed forever.

Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is strong and compact program that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives totally, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility.
If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted files (using undelete utility or some data recovery software) and use against the owner's will. We highly recommend you to run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.
Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann's data destruction method is also implemented.
Both WIPE and KILL functions support 17 security standards from various countries such as USA, Canada, Germany and others. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever.

New! 5.1 version supports 17 security standards from various countries such as:
* Bruce Schneier's algorithm
* Canadian OPS-II
* DoD 5220.22 M
* Gutmann's algorithm
* German VSITR
* HMG IS5 Baseline
* HMG IS5 Enhanced
* Navso P-5329-26 (RL)
* Navso P-5329-26 (MFM)
* NCSC-TG-025
* Russian GOST p50739-95
* US Army AR380-19
* US Air Force 5020
* One-pass zeros method
* One-pass random characters method
* User defined method (user's pattern and specified number of passes)
* User-defined number of passes (up to 99)

Features:
* Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive or logical partition
* Erases partitions, logical drives and unused disk space
* Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
* Supports fixed disks, floppies, zip drives, FlashMedia drives
* Supports large-sized drives (more than 128GB)
* Supports Command Line mode (can be run with no user interaction)
* Operates from bootable floppy disk or bootable CD (DOS version)
* Operates from bootable CD/DVD, USB (Windows version)
* New! Supports 17 security standards:
* Erases with one-pass zeros
* Erases with one-pass random characters
* Erases with user defined method, using user's pattern and specified number of passes New!
* Erases with user-defined number of passes (up to 99)
* US Department of Defense 5220.22 M
* US Department of Defense 5220.22 M (ECE) New!
* US Army AR380-19 New!
* US Air Force 5020 New!
* Navso P-5329-26 (MFM) New!
* Navso P-5329-26 (RL) New!
* NCSC-TG-025 New!
* Canadian OPS-II New!
* HMG IS5 Baseline New!
* HMG IS5 Enhanced New!
* German VISTR
* Bruce Schneier New!
* Gutmann's method
* Russian GOST p50739-95
* Customizable security levels
* Supports all detected hard disk drives
* Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
* Includes Console Application to run and erase data under Windows
* Displays detected drive and partition information
* Scans NTFS and FAT volumes and displays existing and deleted files and folders
* Data verification may be performed after erasing is completed
* Disk Viewer allows you to preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive
* Operates in DOS real mode, the most secure and reliable environment
* Wipes out NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
* Wipes out free clusters (unused by file data sectors)
* Wipes out file slack space (unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by file)
* Wipes out deleted MFT and ROOT system records

Active@ KillDisk FREE version features:
* Detects and displays information about all partitions, hard disks and floppy drives currently connected to your computer
* Wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives totally by secure overwriting data on physical level using [One Pass Zeros] data destruction method
* Erases partitions, logical drives and even not used disk space
* Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
* Supports IDE, SATA and SCSI drives
* Supports larger than 128GB hard disks via using LBA(LBA48) mode to access drive's data
* File systems (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc) on the drive do not matter, detected physical drive is erased using low-level disk access
* Double confirmation excludes possibility of accidental erasing of data on a drive
* Very easy-to-use, utility has intuitive console interface and command line mode for the advanced users
* Works on any system capable of boot from floppy in DOS mode
* Utility is so compact that can be placed on bootable diskette and used from it. You do not even need to boot from the hard drive to destroy it
* Cleans hard drive, floppies, etc.
* FREE product updates from the Web

Command Line Mode
Utility has command line mode. It allows you to start erase procedure automatically.
By running utility with parameters you can:
* Start erasing of all floppy drives, hard drives or all detected drives different types
* Cancel confirmation of the erase command
* Specify data destruction method
* Show or hide error messages (if any)

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this file shredder software.