Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional, 1u User Manual

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Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 10 6. Confirm Installation. On the Ready to Install the Program page click the Ins

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 11 After you have inserted the Wiping CD into a CD/DVD drive and restarted the comp

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 12  Wipe Wizard (enables to destroy all on-disk information or only remnants of

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 13 BASIC CONCEPTS This chapter explains terms and ideas that show how the program

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 14  NAVSO P-5239-26 for MFM encoded drives. At first to write the fixed value (0x

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 15 an extended partition with logical drives. However, these operating systems also

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 16 The bulk of software today is written for a 32-bit processor. It can meet the re

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 17 The Launcher’s window can be conditionally subdivided into several sections that

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 18 MAIN MENU The Main Menu provides access to the entire functionality of the prog

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 19 Wizards Wipe Hard Disk or Partition... Destroy all on-disk information or only r

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 2 CONTENTS Introduction ...

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 20 Properties… Get in-depth information on the properties of selected partition Vie

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 21 Open the Help system VIRTUAL OPERATIONS BAR The program supports previewing th

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 22 Wiping Tools Starting the Wipe Wizard to help destroy all on-disk information o

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 23  Model. Small-sized bars display the following information about logical disks

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 24  Disk View, which offers the user the following options: - Disk Editor to view

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 25 Open the next browsed page Stop loading the current page Refresh the contents

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 26 This section contains a set of general options that will be taken into account

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 27 Here you can set a specific data erasure algorithm that will be used by default

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 28 This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during p

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 29 This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during t

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3 Data Sanitization ...

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 30  By clicking the link at the bottom of the window you can jump to the Operatio

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 31 This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account when the

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 32 The model and serial number of the disk serve as the title of the browsed page.

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 33  Total size, used space and free space (in GB or MB). Below there is a list of

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 34  You can make an ISO image instead of burning a CD/DVD by selecting the Emulat

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 35 4. The program allows creating new partitions only within blocks of un-partitio

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 36  Partition size and position may also be defined by using the drag-and-drop te

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 37 SUPPORTED FILE SYSTEMS The program provides the ability to format partitions of

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 38 In addition, there is the possibility to make further detailed settings (althoug

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 39  Call the popup menu for the selected partition (right click of the mouse butt

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4 Basic Partitioning Operations ...

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 40 In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to carry hard disk o

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 41  Wipe mode. This section enables to switch between two options: - Wipe out a

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 42 - In case you preferred to create a customized algorithm, the next page of the

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 43 The program also enables to store the resulted report. To do that, just press t

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 44 TASK SCHEDULING Automation of operations can really help you out when you’ve got

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 45 MANAGING TASKS All scheduled tasks are placed in a separate list, which can be r

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 46 3. In the opened dialog window you can see two tabs - General and Schedule. Cl

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 47 4. In the opened dialog enter the required task name and specify the task time

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 48 SETUP Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters.

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 49  This command is unavailable if there are no operations on the List of Pending

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 5 INTRODUCTION Data security nowadays is the burning issue not only for companies

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 50 MOUNT PARTITION The program enables to assign or remove drive letters of existin

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 51  Modifying drive letter of the system partition will result in inability to bo

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 52 3. Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters. In

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 53  Careless use of the Edit Sectors function may result in the irreversible data

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 54 By clicking the Send button the built-in mail client will generate a template r

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 55 With a handy dialog you can study logs on any operation carried by the program.

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 56 3. In the boot menu select Normal Mode to use the Linux wiping environment (mor

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 57 6. On the next page choose the required hard disk from the pull-down list (if s

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 58 FIXING WINDOWS STARTUP ABILITY Let’s assume that due to an unknown reason your W

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 59 6. On the next page choose the required Windows installation from the list of

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6 Please take into consideration the mentioned above peculiarities of the certain

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 60 9. On the next page choose a hard disk from the pull-down list (if several), t

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 61 12. Confirm the operation. 13. After the operation is completed click the Rep

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 62  By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 63 8. Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the le

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 64 13. After the operation is completed, close the wizard by pressing the appropr

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 65 5. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button. 6. Select a disk

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 66 Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size. 8. On the Select Dest

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 67 To irreversibly destroy all on-disk information without any possibility to recov

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 68 6. Review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary. 7. C

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 69  The program cannot create a new partition on a dynamic disk, but only on a ha

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 7 AUTOMATIZATION FACILITIES  Task scheduling to automate routine operations. It c

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 70 You can find a name of the tool you need here: http://kb.paragon-software.com 11

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 71 The triad of values {[Sectors-per-Track], [Tracks-per-Cylinder], [Amount-of-Cyli

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 72 Windows 2000 and XP support two quite different partitioning schemes: the old DO

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 8  GUID Partition Table (GPT). It is the next generation of a hard disk partition

Copyright© 1994-2009 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 9  SVGA video adapter and monitor  Mouse LINUX/DOS BASED WIPING CD To use the