Manual Partition Operations
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2. Select
Disk
Æ
Wipe
or a similar item in the
Operations
sidebar list, or click
Wipe
the selected unallocated space
on the toolbar.
3. In
the
Wipe Unallocated Space
window, enter a number of disk passes (up to 99),
For information about the Acronis Disk Director Suite data wiping algorithm
see the commentary for 4.1.10 «Deleting a partition».
Hard disk passes number window
4. By
clicking
OK
, you'll add a pending operation of unallocated disk space wiping.
4.1.14
Clearing a hard disk
Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you clear not only unallocated disk space, but an entire
disk as well.
If you need to clear the entire hard disk:
1.
Select a hard disk on the
Tree View
panel of Acronis Disk Director Suite —
Clear the
current hard disk drive
button becomes available on the toolbar (if there is no
Tree
View
panel in the main window, show it by selecting
View
Æ
Tree View
).
2. Select
Disk
Æ
Clear
or a similar item in the
Operations
sidebar list, or click
Clear
the current hard disk drive
on the toolbar.
3.
Select the clearing method in the
Clear Hard Drive
window; you can:
(1) just
delete hard disk partitions
(without wiping disk sectors) — set the
switch to
Delete partitions.
(2)
delete hard disk partitions
and fully
clear hard disk sectors
— set the
switch to
Delete partitions and destroy data
.
Having set the switch to
Delete partitions and destroy data
, enter the
number of passes
for wiping.
