A key concern for any UK redundant computers disposal programme is the secure removal of all data. Blackmore considers Data Removal (purging) to be a critical issue and the company has developed a comprehensive disk wipe utility programme, which guarantees data removal to any standard.

Fully Programmable Utility

The Blackmore data purge utility is fully programmable, allowing multiple overwrites. The standard default is one overwrite with any number of additional overwrites programmable. The other defaults are three and seven times (US Military).

1) The utility is able to destroy contents of whole hard drives, including partition tables, boot records, file system structures, operating system files and user files.

2) It shreds data according to U.S. Department of Defense recommendations to destroy data (DoD 5200.28-STD): seven pass extended character rotation wiping.

3) Contents of hard drives is wiped without any dependence of files system used to format the drives (FAT, NTFS, HPFS or other).

4) It is designed to provide a high performance of shredding. On modern hard drives performance of write operations is up to 15 Mbytes/sec. So seven pass wiping performance is up to 2.5 Mbytes/sec.

As the utility uses low-level disk access, hard drives will be wiped without any regards to file system used on the hard drive partitions (whether it is DOS/Windows file system or not).