Whether you are planning on giving your computer away, selling it on eBay or just setting it at the curb with the rest of your trash, you need to take appropriate precautions to ensure that your personal and confidential data does not get shared. Migo Drive Washer allows you to safely pass on your computer knowing that all your personal data is gone - for good.
Product Benefits at a Glance
Permanently eliminates all hard drive data - a "must have if you are selling, donating or disposing of your PC
"Point and Click" graphical user interface
Erases all partition types and drive formats - FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux
Supports most IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI, RAID, USB, and Firewire drives
Runs even if your Operating System is no longer working
Meets the U.S. Department of Defense 5220.22-M and most other recognized international standards for drive and data erasure
Open source drivers for comprehensive device support
Queries drive directly to determine TRUE hard drive size for precise sanitization
Creates bootable floppies or boot from CD ROM
Advanced settings permit you to configure your own overwrite patterns
Supports fast single pass sanitization method
Progress meter shows elapsed, estimated and remaining time for each pass
Multiple customizable reporting and verification options
Your Hard Drive Contains Every File You Deleted Identity thieves target discarded computers to look for hard drive data that has not been securely erased. What many people do not know is that even after deleting files, emptying the recycle bin, formatting the hard drive or repartition it is possible to quite easily recover and steal the personal data that was deleted.
Complete Hard Drive Sanitization The only reliable way to truly erase data is to overwrite your hard drive with either random or new specific data patterns based on established file sanitation standards. With Migo Drive Washer you can securely overwrite all of your hard drive data to ensure that your social security, credit card number, passwords, health records, financials, business plans, photos and other sensitive information does not end up in the wrong hands.
Works Even if Your OS is Not Migo Drive Washer sanitizes hard drives of any size and will securely overwrite the entire physical hard drive including operating system, program files and all of your personal data. Migo Drive Washer boots from a CD-ROM or creates a bootable floppy that runs independently of the operating system ensuring total drive erasure even if your operating system is no longer operational.
Beyond Recovery Migo Drive Washer meets the U.S. Department of Defense 5220.22-M and most other recognized international standards for drive and data erasure. Rendering your data unrecoverable by any software means.
For the Novice and Expert User Alike Migo Drive Washer is easy to set up and use. The intuitive "point and click" graphical user interface allows you to quickly erase your entire hard drive at once or select a specific partition to overwrite and keep the remaining partitions intact. Advanced settings permit you to configure your own overwrite patterns.
Confidently Discard Your PC A progress meter show elapsed, estimated and remaining time for each pass. Migo Drive Washer provides confirmation that a drive and/or partition have been erased for good so you can safely pass on your computer.
FAT 16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux formatted drives, etc. (As long as the Drive is recognized by Migo Drive Washer, it can securely sanitize the existing data on the drive/partition.)
Supported Deletion Standards
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD-5220.22-M)
North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Standard
U.S Air Force AFSSI50203
U.S. Navy Standard for MFM (NAVSO P-5239-26 - MFM)
U.S. Navy Standard for RLL (NAVSO P-5239-26 - RLL)
1) Migo Drive Washer Permanent Removal
Migo Drive Washer loads its own operating system, independent of Windows, to fully sanitize your hard drive. For this reason the software must be booted from either a floppy disk or CD/DVD-ROM.
2) Drive Washer Menu Selection
Once your computer has started with Migo Drive Washer, a graphical menu will be displayed that contains the various selections shown below. Follow the menu options to select the drives you wish to sanitize. From this menu item you will also select the drive sanitization method you wish to use. Several standards are supported. Just follow the easy-to-use menu options and your drive is promptly washed along with any traces of your old data!
Customer Product Reviews
5 of 5What Personal Data?Wed, November 28, 2007
A customer from Hollywood, CA
I gave my old computer to my parents, needless to say I had things that I wouldn't want them to see on that old PC - DriveWasher saved me from any future embarrassment - Thank you
5 of 5Don’t touch my stuffFri, December 21, 2007
A customer from Albany, NY
Unfortunately I had to leave my PC to my unfriendly co-worker. Luckily I had Drive Washerelp me get clean up the data from my hard drive h.