Manual Partition Operations
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2. Select Disk Æ Wipe or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click Wipe
the selected unallocated space on the toolbar.
3. In the Wipe Unallocated Space window, enter a number of disk passes (up to 99),
For information about the Acronis Disk Director Suite data wipin
al
orithm
see the commentary for 4.1.10 «Deleting a partition».
Hard disk passes number window
4. By clicking OK, you'll add a pending operation of unallocated disk space wiping.
4.1.14 Clearing a hard disk
Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you clear not only unallocated disk space, but an entire
disk as well.
If you need to clear the entire hard disk:
1. Select a hard disk on the Tree View panel of Acronis Disk Director Suite — Clear the
current hard disk drive button becomes available on the toolbar (if there is no Tree
View panel in the main window, show it by selecting View Æ Tree View).
2. Select Disk Æ Clear or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click
Clear
the current hard disk drive on the toolbar.
3. Select the clearing method in the Clear Hard Drive window; you can:
(1) just delete hard disk partitions (without wiping disk sectors) — set the
switch to Delete partitions.
(2) delete hard disk partitions and fully clear hard disk sectors — set the
switch to Delete partitions and destroy data.
Having set the switch to Delete partitions and destroy data, enter the
number of passes for wiping.
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