Clarification on HD wiping during reimage
Hello All-
I am hoping for some clarification surrounding whether or not Acronis Snap Deploy 5 completely erases the hard drive of the destination machine during a reimage.
We have some machines that we'll be deploying a new image to that may contain confidential data, and I am wondering if I need to first perform a wipe on the machines, or if Acronis by its nature does so during deployment.
Thanks!
-David


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In reply to It does by truwrikodrorow…

Hi,
About he suggested app for erasing:
1. About Dban (free) will not tackle SSDs
2. The trial Blancco5Evaluation I downoaded - well I was not able to use it because the bootable USB that was automatically created just crashed after starting...
I got quite a good result with PartedMagic that, among other things, works quite OK.
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CCleaner is free and has a disk wipe method. Minitool free also has diskwipe - both work well. If you have to certify destruction though, these won't cut the mustard for legal in most cases though. I'd feel confident doing this on my personal drives though.
Those dual dock cloners / wipers do a good job too and for $30 are a bargain if you do this a lot. Pop in 2 disks, hold the wipe button and let it do its thing while you do other stuff. There are tons of them - this is just one example:https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HDD2/dp/…
Been awhile since I used DBAN now, but I seem to remember it handling SSD's OK. I stopped using it when they changed their licensing scheme for personal / business use and now have a new business product and haven't ever tried Blancco.
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Late replying here, but wanted to thank you all for the information... great stuff!
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