LSoft Technologies is one of the leading companies in the field of data recovery and secure deletion software. It understands your concerns when it comes to ensuring that deleted data stays deleted, particularly in the event that you are donating or selling your computer. In such situations, you will probably want to make certain that no one can ever recover any personal or financial information stored on the hard disk.
Active@ KillDisk is the program for anyone seeking a way how to erase hard drive files so that they can never be retrieved by any third party program or by any other method. Now Active@ KillDisk has new packages. It works on Linux platform, including GUI Boot Disk: Ultimate, Linux & Linux Suite. It supports the NTFS and FAT file systems as well as the native file systems used by Apple MacOS and Linux for PCs. It works with many types of storage media such as IDE, SATA, SCSI, SSD, USB, ZIP disks and memory cards. Large sized RAIDs (disk arrays) sanitizing supported as well.

Active@ KillDisk supports 23 security standards including DoD 5220.22-M . Active@ KillDisk erases all data on HDD and USB disks completely (the process removes ALL data from a physical disk(s) or logical drive's surface), and also Active@ KillDisk can wipes out all unused space on disks, not touching existing data.

New features that Active@ KillDisk version 9 includes: Boot Disk Creator can pre-configure KillDisk startup using Command Line parameters; fingerprint (date, erase method and status) can be placed to first disk's
sector; allowed to specify ASCII or HEX pattern for each pass in User Defined method; true parallel erasing of several disks at the same time, independent sessions supported; comments can be easily added to custom certificate for each erasing session; redesigned and improved user interface; added new Department of Energy erase method (DoE M 205.1-2) and new Canadian CSEC ITSG-06 erase method; Linux-based boot disk (LiveCD)... Ultimate package now includes DOS, Windows, Linux Console, Linux (LiveCD) targets.

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that formatting the hard drive or even just emptying the Recycle Bin will make data go away for good but this is not true at all. All that this does is make the previously used space available to any other data. Another file copy or creation operation can overwrite it at any time but, until that moment, the data is normally fully recoverable by using a data recovery program. Such things do not even require any specialist skills or knowledge - it is well within reach of any average computer user. To ensure that this does not happen, give Active@ KillDisk a try. Learn more at http://how-to-erase-hard-drive.com.