There may be an occasion when you need to thoroughly wipe out all data from your hard drive. Your hard drive may have been corrupted and you need to clean it before reinstallation. You may have secret, confidential or valuable company information in your computer which must never be discovered by anybody. You may be submitting it for repair and want to make sure nobody can access the data stored in your drive. Or more commonly, you may want to donate, sell or dispose of your hard drive but are afraid that somebody might steal data from it.

It is now fairly common knowledge that hitting that delete button ironically does not permanently delete data, neither does simply emptying the Recycle Bin. The fact is that digital information is still retained on your hard drive and can be extracted using software.

The DoD procedure is done by a rigorous wiping of 7 passes, with each pass consisting of 3 wipes each

Critical information such as your credit card number, passwords, confidential medical records, internet browsing history, financial records and other sensitive data should be kept out of anybody’s reach or better yet, just obliterated forever.

When the time comes for you to completely wipe your hard drive clean of your critical data overwriting over and over again is the answer. Repeated overwriting is the only way to completely delete data beyond recovery, and this is the standard procedure employed by the Department of Defense.

This “DoD Wipe Process” permanently deletes files from your hard disk drive. It is done by overwriting the data several times so that they are buried so deeply as to be impossible to uncover by any program.

The DoD procedure is done by a rigorous wiping of 7 passes, with each pass consisting of 3 wipes each. In every wipe the drive is overwritten or covered with random patterns so that in the end, it is virtually impossible to piece the data back together.

Data recovery may be important but there are times when data erasure is equally as important. Kingdom Data Recovery offer a complete data erasure service for all kinds of media including hard drives and back up tapes.