Guide: How to Erase Entire Disk Drives with East-Tec Eraser 2006?

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006 - Protect your data and privacy and remove all evidence of your computer and online activity with East-Tec Eraser 2006. Eraser goes beyond U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information and easily removes every trace of sensitive data from your computer. Completely destroy information stored without your knowledge or approval: Internet history, Web pages and pictures from sites visited on the Internet, unwanted cookies, chatroom conversations, deleted e-mail messages, temporary files, the Windows swap file, the Recycle Bin, previously deleted files, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files, photos or confidential letters, or entire drives, floppy disks, CDs/DVDs, USB flash drives, etc. East-Tec Eraser 2006 offers full support for popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, America Online, MSN Explorer, Opera), for Peer2Peer applications (Kazaa, Kazaa Lite, iMesh, Napster, Morpheus, Direct Connect, Limewire, Shareaza, etc.), and for other popular programs such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, etc. Eraser has an intuitive interface and wizards that guide you through all the necessary steps needed to protect your privacy and sensitive information. Other features include support for custom privacy needs, user-defined erasure methods, scheduler functionality, command-line parameters, integration with Windows Explorer, password protection, and Anti-Surprise (Anti-Boss or Panic) Key feature. The latest version comes with a Media Wiper to erase entire drives, support for updated versions of Yahoo Messenger, MSN Explorer, Norton Antivirus 2006, Opera and many others, and data retention to protect certain types of data.

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step1: To erase entire disk drives, please click the Entire Drive Wiper toolbar button, or select the Entire Drive Wiper option from the Tools menu of East-Tec Eraser 2006.

 

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step2: Selecting the drives/devices to wipe. East-Tec Eraser 2006 will first open an Introductory Screen that displays information about what it means to usually format a drive using the Windows Format option. Selecting the Next button in this Introductory Screen, East-Tec Eraser 2007 will let you select the drives you want to wipe.

 

 

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step3: Selecting the wipe method. After selecting the drive(s)/device(s) you want to wipe, East-Tec Eraser 2006 will now let you select the wipe method you want to use. In this screen you will see the list of available wipe methods. When you select a method name in the list, the method description is displayed

in the lower part of the screen.

 

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step4: Selecting the wipe options. East-Tec Eraser 2007 will now let you select various wipe options. In this window you will see the list of available wipe options.

 

 

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step5: Wipe Confirmaton. Please confirm the actions from the right side of this window. Important: Make sure this is what you want to wipe! All data will be destroyed beyond any chance of recovery!

 

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step6: Starting the wipe process. Before starting to wipe the selected drive(s) and/or device(s) using the selected wipe method and options, East-Tec Eraser 2006 will open a "safety" screen that warns you that you are about to destroy the data from one or more drives beyond recovery.

 

 

 

 

East-Tec Eraser 2006-Step7: The Wipe Process. During the wipe process, East-Tec Eraser 2006 will display a progress bar showing the evolution of the wipe process, the name of the drive wiped in that moment and the name of the method used to wipe that drive. If the option 'Allow the user to abort the wiping process' was selected

before, the user may also choose to pause or to abort the wipe process.

 

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