BCWipe Total WipeOut 2.21 is a File Shredder product from jetico.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, BCWipe is a secure file deletion tool that uses secure deletion procedures (US DoD, Gutmann) to shred folder and file contents beyond recovery. It can wipe individual files and folders, as well as free disk space and the swap file. The BCWipe Task Manager allows you to create multiple sets of actions and perform them as needed, or on a regular schedule. It includes supports for system folders likebrowser cache, cookies, recent documents, as well as MRU lists. BCwipe also includes CryptoSwap, autility that allows you to encrypt the Windows Swap file, using powerful encryption algorithms.
Before disposing of or giving away a laptop, desktop, external hard drive or other removable media, you must be certain that all private data has been erased without any chance of recovery. BCWipe Total WipeOutTM (formerly known as BCWipePD) is a utility utility that securely and permanently erases all data from the entire hard drive, including boot records and operating system files.
To surgically clear selected data, such as wiping free space on an active workstation, see BCWipe.
When files are deleted normally from a disk on your computer, the operating system (for example, Windows or Linux) does not actually erase contents of these files from the disk - it only deletes 'references' on these files from file system tables. Contents of the deleted file (or the file's body) continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily recovered using any undelete utility.
Wiping is a term used to describe a process of shredding contents of a file or disk space so as to make it impossible to recover or restore any data.
BCWipe Total WipeOut utility (formerly known as BCWipePD) is designed for high-security environments - such as government agencies, banks and large corporations -- where there is a need to safely eliminate all contents of hard drives before computers are retired or removed from the premises. BCWipe Total WipeOut is a strong program utility designed to quickly and efficiently wipe disks on large number of computers without wasting time to actually install the software on every computer.
Wiping a whole hard drive (or all hard drives) on the computer with BCWipe Total WipeOut is a simple procedure: you boot the computer using BCWipe Total WipeOut bootable CD and confirm wiping. It is also possible to run BCWipe Total WipeOut with command-line parameters.
For Linux systems, BCWipe Total WipeOut runs from a bootable CD using a kernel of the Linux operating system. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Linux is distributed according to GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). Source code of the Linux kernel version 2.6.12 used on the bootable CD are available for download from www.kernel.org. Text of GNU GPL is included into BCWipe Total WipeOut distribution.
BCWipe Total WipeOut Features
The BCWipe Total WipeOut program utility destroys contents of whole hard drives, including partition tables, boot records, filesystem structures, operating system files and user files. It includes the following important features:
* Wiping procedure can be run on any hardware platform with x386 and 64-bit AMD/Intel architecture, regardless of operating system installed on the computer.
* BCWipe Total WipeOut can wipe all hard drives on the computer including the one where operating system is installed.
* Contents of hard drives are wiped regardless of filesystem used to format the drives (FAT, NTFS, HPFS or other).
* BCWipe Total WipeOut can wipe IDE, SATA, SCSI hard drives, removable disk devices (for example, USB hard drives, flash memory).
* The utility allows the user to customize wiping scheme according to U.S. Department of Defense recommendations to destroy data (DoD 5220.22-M) or according to Peter Gutmann 35-pass wiping scheme, or use your own customized wiping scheme.
* BCWipe Total WipeOut is designed to provide a high performance of shredding data. On modern hard drives performance of 1-pass wiping can be 30-60 MBytes/sec and more. So 7-pass U.S. DoD wiping performance will be 4-8 MBytes/sec.
* BCWipe Total WipeOut can wipe several hard drives in parallel. Thus feature significantly improves the overall performance of wiping multiple hard drives simultaneously, especially if they are connected to different controllers on the motherboard.
* BCWipe Total WipeOut recognizes and can wipe Host Protected Area (HPA) on hard drives.
* BCWipe Total WipeOut can identify the number of sectors hidden by the Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) function (present since ATA-6 standard) and can wipe the DCO hidden sectors.
* BCWipe Total WipeOut can write wiping results to a floppy or USB removable drive.
Using BCWipe Total WipeOut
BCWipe Total WipeOut is distributed as a self-extracted installation software that can be run on computers with Windows operating systems.
When you create a BCWipe Total WipeOut bootable CD, it can run on any computer with an x386 hardware platform and running any operating system already installed on the computer. BCWipe Total WipeOut wiping functions can be run automatically or manually on the computer.
Please keep in mind that computers may freeze after seeing an "Uncompressing Linux..." message because Linux kernel conflicts with ACPI on some hardware configurations. Try to disable ACPI in BIOS, then boot with BCWipe Total WipeOut CD again.
BCWipe Total WipeOut ISO Configuration Wizard
BCWipe Total WipeOut includes ISO Configuration Wizard software for preparing ISO image of bootable CD with BCWipe Total WipeOut wiping utility.
BCWipe Total WipeOut ISO Configuration Wizard software runs on computers with Windows operating system. The software helps to create a bootable CD used to wipe hard drives according to your requirements. The license of this file & disk software is Free Trial Software, the price is EUR49.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of BCWipe Total WipeOut, you can buy this file & disk software.