Fast-n-Safe » permanently wipe hard drive http://www.fastnsafe.net Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Permanent data erasing for all of your sensitve information http://www.fastnsafe.net/permanent-data-erasing-for-all-of-your-sensitve-information http://www.fastnsafe.net/permanent-data-erasing-for-all-of-your-sensitve-information#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:51:23 +0000 keith http://www.fastnsafe.net/?p=23 Very often when using a home or business personal computer we have a requirement to erase hard drive data permanently. The reasons for this are many fold. Many times we have recently finished a project and on sending the information to its destination need to permanently remove those files so as to create space on our computer for new work. Simply deleting files does not remove the underlying data. And anyone who has accessed or computer could then use a basic data recovery program and copy away our information.

In other situations we may have a specific need for privacy as to stored financial or personal records or even simple personal interest we would rather keep away from prying eyes. Once again there’s a need to delete data permanently so that it can never be accessed or read. For this purpose Remo software offers a superb file shredder program that will easily permanently remove all of the original file code of any information you have stored on your business or personal computer.

]]> http://www.fastnsafe.net/permanent-data-erasing-for-all-of-your-sensitve-information/feed 0 Permanently erasing sensitive electronic documents http://www.fastnsafe.net/permanently-erasing-sensitive-electronic-documents http://www.fastnsafe.net/permanently-erasing-sensitive-electronic-documents#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:08:12 +0000 keith http://www.fastnsafe.net/?p=5 When you have printed documents and need to dispose of them, what do you do? If the information on the documents is of no import or value, you can simply toss them in the trash. But, if those papers have sensitive records and financial information on them, you need to destroy them in such a way as to make sure they can never be read again. The common way to destroy documents like this is to run them to a paper shredder. High quality paper shredders tear 50 sheets of records into confetti style pieces that are so small they can never be reassembled. So what do you do when you have sensitive electronic files you need to permanently destroy? We do the same thing, only instead of a paper shredder we use a file shredder.

A file shredder is a program designed to mix up and scramble all of the underlying coded information from your files that is stored on your computer’s hard drive. While you might think that simply deleting files removes information from your computer, this is completely untrue. Deleting a file merely removes the name on that file and marks the space the file used as available to be written onto. Anyone with a basic data recovery program can access your files and restore them. However once a file shredder has been used to tear apart the basic file information into infinitesimally small pieces, those files can never be reconstructed and opened again. Online file shredder reviews seem to continually point to the Remo Software file shredder as the best program of this kind.

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