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Safety-Related

[v6.0] USB Secure Erase – Erase all data in your USB drive

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In order to erase a USB drive, some users may just delete files or format it. However, neither simple deletion nor formatting can completely erase files, because many data recovery programs can easily and quickly recover deleted or formatted files. Therefore, computer users need to be careful when discarding or selling USB drives, as a large amount of data involving personal privacy and even company secrets can be found on many recycled used flash drives.

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Hardware-Related

[v5.01] USB Low-Level Format – Format, erase or factory reset your USB drive at low level

If your USB storage device (e.g. USB flash drive, removable hard drive, SD card) is experiencing problems like persistent data corruption, virus intrusion, invalid master boot record, presence of hidden partition (after making it a bootable USB), loss of capacity (formatted on non-PC), corrupt bootable sectors, bad sectors in firmware/controller, inability to format, then a low-level formatting tool like USB Low-Level Format can help you fix these faults reliably.

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Safety-Related

[v10.1] Active@ KillDisk – Sanitize all data on HDD, SSD & USB drives

When phasing out the use of hard disk and other devices storing digital data, for ordinary users, the private data inside should be erased effectively in order to avoid the abuse or leakage of privacy made by people with ulterior motives; for enterprises and institutions, the data is often very important, sensitive and confidential, so that they must be destroyed strictly. To do this, we have to turn to some third party professional data sanitizing tools, because deleting the data itself and formatting the entire disk are all futile.

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