Advances in data recovery have been made such that data can be reclaimed in many cases from hard drives that have been wiped and disassembled. Security agencies use advanced applications to find cybercrime-related evidence. Also there are established industrial spy agencies adopting sophisticated channel coding techniques such as Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), a technique used to reconstruct the data on magnetic disks.

Other methods include the use of magnetic force microscopy and recovery of data based on patterns in erase bands.

Although there are very sophisticated data recovery systems available at a high price, data can easily be restored with the help of an off-the-shelf data recovery utility like Active@ File Recovery, making your erased confidential data quite accessible.

Using Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives, our powerful and compact utility, all data on your hard drive or removable floppy drive can be destroyed without the possibility of future recovery. After using Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives, disposal, recycling, selling or donating your storage device can be done with peace of mind.

Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives conforms to four international standards for clearing and sanitizing data. You can be sure that once you erase a disk with Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives, sensitive information is destroyed forever.

Active@ KillDisk for Hard Drives is a quality security application that destroys data permanently from any computer that can be started using a DOS floppy disk. Access to the drive's data is made on the physical level via the Basic Input-Output Subsystem (BIOS), bypassing the operating system’s logical drive structure organization. Regardless of the operating system, file systems or type of machine, this utility can destroy all data on all storage devices. It does not matter which operating systems or file systems are located on the machine, it can be DOS, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux or Unix for PC.