13 wiping unallocated hard disk space – Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 - User Guide User Manual

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Manual Partition Operations

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Run partition defragmentation window

4.

Defragmentation results are shown in the Defragment Partition window.

Partition defragmentation results window

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Wiping unallocated hard disk space

PC hard disks can contain a substantial amount of confidential information. Often users
forget that private information must be completely destroyed to avoid unauthorized
access to it — simply deleting an old file is not sufficient.

Windows tools do not guarantee data destruction. Deleted files can be restored easily.
Formatting and even deleting a partition leaves hard disk sector contents the same.
Acronis Disk Director Server offers a simple but reliable algorithm for wiping hard disk
unallocated space.

If you need to wipe unallocated disk space:

1.

Select a hard disk and unallocated space in the Acronis Disk Director Server main
window — Wipe unallocated space becomes available on the toolbar.

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