Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Manual Partition Operations 

 

 

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2. 

Execute operation of free space clearing by selecting Disk    Wipe  or a 
similar item in the Operations  sidebar list, or by clicking 

  Wipe the 

selected unallocated space on the toolbar. 

3. In 

the 

Wipe Unallocated Space window, enter a number of disk passes (up 

to 99), 

 

For information about the Acronis Disk Director Suite data wiping algorithm 

see the commentary for 4.1.7 «Deleting a partition». 

 

4. By 

clicking 

OK

, you'll add a pending operation of unallocated disk space 

wiping. 

Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you clear not only unallocated disk space, but an 
entire disk as well. 

1. 

Select a hard disk on the Tree View panel of Acronis Disk Director Suite — 
Clear the current hard disk drive button becomes available on the toolbar (if 
there is no Tree View panel in the main window, show it by selecting View 

 Tree View). 

2. 

Execute operation of hard disk space clearing by selecting Disk   Clear or 
a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or by clicking 

  Clear the 

current hard disk drive on the toolbar. 

3. 

Select the clearing method in the Clear Hard Drive window; you can: 
(1) just 

delete hard disk partitions (without wiping disk sectors) — set the 

switch to Delete partitions. 

(2)  delete hard disk partitions and fully clear hard disk sectors — set the 

switch to Delete partitions and destroy data. 
Having set the switch to Delete partitions and destroy data, enter the 
number of passes for wiping.