14 clearing a hard disk – Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 - User Guide User Manual

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Manual Partition Operations

2. Select

Disk

Æ Wipe or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click

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 Server data wiping algorithm

see the commentary for 5.1.10 «Deleting a partition».

Hard disk passes number window

4. By

clicking

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

5.1.14

Clearing a hard disk

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

If you need to clear the entire hard disk:

Select a hard disk on the Tree View panel of Acronis Disk Director Server — 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

Æ Tree View).

2. Select

Disk

Æ Clear or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click

Clear

the current hard disk drive on the toolbar.

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.