Acronis privacy expert suite 8.0 User Manual

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Acronis Drive Cleanser 
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You can select an entire hard disk or several disks for data destruction. To do 
this, click the rectangle corresponding to the hard disk (with a device icon, disk 
number and capacity.) 
You can select several partitions simultaneously located on different hard disks 
or on several disks. 
Click Next to continue. 
In the Final actions window, you can select actions to be performed on the 
partitions selected for data destruction. Acronis Drive Cleanser offers you three 
variants: 
ƒ  Leave partition as is — just destroy data using the method selected below 
ƒ  Delete partition — destroy data and delete partition 
ƒ  Format partition — destroy data and format partition (default) 
 
Final actions window 
In this example, the switch is set to Format. This will allow you to see the results 
of partition and data destruction, along with the reformatting of the partition.  
9.3 
Using preset data destruction methods 
Acronis Drive Cleanser utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction 
methods that are described in detail in Appendix A «Information wiping methods 
used by » of this manual.