Disk erasure

KillDisk is an extremely powerful tool for secure disk erasure. Individual disks or batches of disks can be erased to any desired standard with just a few clicks. The process to achieve this is outlined in this section.

Select a disks for erasure

Use Disk Explorer view to select disk bays.
Open Erase disks dialog dialog
- Click the Erase command in the action toolbar
- Click Actions > Disk Erase command from main menu
- Click Disk Erase command from context menu
Confirm erasure options
Use tabbed views to adjust disk erasure options if necessary. Available options:
- Disk examination options
- Disk examination options [optional]
- Error handling
- XML reports [optional]
- Disk copy options
Note:
If only one disk was selected for erasure than you can specify boundaries of erased area for selected disk.

Click OK button to begin disk erase process.
Observe erase process

If Disk examination options was selected then disk examination will started first. Depending on examination outcome at second stage - disk erase begins.

Once the Erase procedure begins, you will see the green progress bar turn red. At this point, the bay will show the erase method and progress. The progress bay here represents the percentage of data left to erase on the drive, with the corresponding percentage shown. As the procedure progresses, the percentage will decrease, and the red bar will get smaller.

The remaining time will also be seen and progress in the operation will be displayed, as shown below:

Figure: Disk erasure

If Disk copy options was selected then after erase the final stage of this task begins - clone data from source to all successfully erased disks.

When erasing completes you can review results, print Erase certificate, Erase labels for processed disks.

See: Processing summary