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Using KillDisk
KillDisk Data Center is a powerful industrial tool to provide disk erasure solutions for large workstations with many
disks. The features in this software are built with this goal in mind. This section outlines the key features of KillDisk
and how they are used to erase single disks to large batches. Much of the software is highly customizable and this
guide will help get you started with configuring KillDisk for your particular system, and using KillDisk to its' full
potential.
Processing options and features
Each action in KillDisk starts with confirmation dialog where you can adjust starting parameters specific for
executing task, such as disk erasure or disk cloning.
For batch processing, the same dialog will appear with options to customize the settings for the batch operation.
In this section we outline the configurable aspects of KillDisks' operations, looking at:
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Erase Options
• Wipe Options
• Examination Options
•
Clone Options
• Error Handling Configuration
• XML Reports
Disk erase options
The same erase options for each batch could be set through Edit disk batch attributes dialog
Erase method
One of the supported by KillDisk erase methods.
Erase verification
Percentage of disk to be verified after disk was erased.
Initialize after erase
Formats the disk to be ready to use after erasure.
Write fingerprint
Writes disk erase information to the first sector of the disk after erasure completion.
Each disk erase actions could be protected by additional confirmation dialog. You can turn this protection off using
application preferences dialog.
See also
XML reports on page 25 for information about erase report.
Disk examination options
KillDisk offers several different disk examination options, depending on user needs. Each examination type has its'
own strengths and weaknesses, mainly tradeoffs between time and thoroughness. Any of the examination types can be
performed on an entire disk, or a selected segment.
Examination options are required for disk integrity examination and optional for disk erasure but can be used to sort
away faulty disk from following processing in sequence.
To examine disk integrity the following three algorithms are used:
Partial Examination
Examines a percentage of the disk, equally segmented in a selected area.