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Preserving Identity Theft

Modern Communication and Information technologies store, manipulate and transfer huge amount of data on computers. This data includes personal information (identity) that digitally defines and describes organizations and individuals, and allows them to cooperate with each other through an array of advance and popular technologies like Internet and Network. This information is stored on computers as they are very reliable storage media.

This information should be protected from the external uses as it includes confidential information about your identity. If anyone steels this information, it is called identity theft. It can create serious problems for you and your business. The identity theft generally occurs when your resell or donate your computer or computer hard drive. In these situations, if you simply delete the data from your system then the person to whom you have sold or donated your computer can recover them and can get your confidential information.

In these situations, to preserve identity theft, you need to completely wipe your personal data from your computer. You can perform this task with the help of Stellar Disk Wipe software. It is robust and easy to use Drive Wipe software that completely wipes the data form your hard drive and preserves identity theft. You can wipe your hard drive using Stellar Disk Wipe software by following these steps:

Step 1: Wizard Intro Brief description about Stellar Disk Wipe is given in the introductory page of the wizard. Please review the information carefully and then click Next to proceed.


Step 2: Disk Selection In this phase, the wizard will show all hard drives attached to the system along with its details such as Disk No., Disk Size, Model No. and Serial No. Hard disk(s) appears in the list according to the boot sequence configured in the BIOS.


Step 3: Choose Wipe Method This phase of the wizard will provide you different wiping methods. The algorithms are arranged in such a way that the fastest one with maximum overwrite speed is on the top of the list and the algorithm with maximum number of passes towards the end.


Step 4: Start Wipe The final phase of the wizard will give the summary of what you have chosen. It will show the selected disk and wiping method. Review the summary carefully and click Finish to continue. Incase of any changes, you have an option to click Back and revise as required. Click Cancel, if you want to exit from the wizard.


Step 5: Finish As soon as you click Finish, confirmation message pops up. If you are sure to continue then click Yes to start wiping. When the process is complete, you get a message indicating that Stellar Disk Wipe has successfully wiped the selected hard disk.

Permanent and complete removal of data from hard disk