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  2. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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    Disk overwriting programs that cannot access the entire hard drive, including hidden/locked areas like the host protected area (HPA), device configuration overlay (DCO), and remapped sectors, perform an incomplete erasure, leaving some of the data intact. By accessing the entire hard drive, data erasure eliminates the risk of data remanence.

  3. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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    Name Developer Licensing Operating system required to run Maintained? Supported wipe methods Reports BleachBit: Andrew Ziem and contributors GNU General Public License

  4. Data remanence - Wikipedia

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    Data remanence is the residual representation of digital data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove or erase the data. This residue may result from data being left intact by a nominal file deletion operation, by reformatting of storage media that does not remove data previously written to the media, or through physical properties of the storage media that allow previously ...

  5. HDDerase - Wikipedia

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    HDDerase is a freeware utility that securely erases data on hard drives using the Secure Erase unit command built into the firmware of Parallel ATA and Serial ATA drives manufactured after 2001. [1] HDDerase was developed by the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. HDDerase is designed for command ...

  6. File deletion - Wikipedia

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    File deletion is the removal of a file from a computer's file system. All operating systems include commands for deleting files (rm on Unix and Linux, [1] era in CP/M and DR-DOS, del/erase in MS-DOS/PC DOS, DR-DOS, Microsoft Windows etc.). File managers also provide a convenient way of deleting files. Files may be deleted one-by-one, or a whole ...

  7. Gutmann method - Wikipedia

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    The Gutmann method is an algorithm for securely erasing the contents of computer hard disk drives, such as files.Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb and presented in the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory in July 1996, it involved writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.

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