Tabernus Disk Purge Home Edition

List Price: $29.99

Features:

• Utility software to use when selling, donating, returning, or recycling a PC
• Erases all types of hard drives including USB, Firewire, and memory sticks
• Protects identity; erases faster than conventional DOS sanitizing programs
• Removes viruses and spyware from PC prior to installing new OS
• Works for all PC-based operating systems, even if OS is unstable or missing

Customer Reviews:

Wipe Capability [Posted on 2006-04-13]
You can't wipe just the free space on a partition or drive with this. It will only wipe the entire partition or disk.

It wipes your hard drive clean, but... [Posted on 2006-11-05]
It wipes your hard drive clean, but if you never used a computer without the assistance of an operating system, you have a learning experience ahead of you. The supplied instructions are inadequate. You need the maker's online explanations to get the job done. So, unless you have another computer available, get the online info before you start using the hardware.

Disk Purge works well [Posted on 2007-01-04]
We recently got a new computer and sent our old one back to Dell for recycling. Before mailing it we wanted to get all sensitive material off the hard drive. The Tabernus Disk Purge seemed to do the job quite well. The only fault I can find with it is that you can not purge individual items on the drive and leave the rest for the next user.

If you want to reformat [Posted on 2007-05-31]
If you want to reformat the hard disk and reinstall an operating system after using Disk Purge, DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT! The hard disk will not recognize fdisk or format c: using the start up disk. The C: drive is history. The computer guru's at Best Buy couldn't fix the problem and my e-mails to Tabernus went unanswered.

Watch out [Posted on 2007-08-14]
I am a professor who has been using computers for about 25 years. I bought Disk Purge because it was the least expensive. They don't mention that using it on older models, one has to create a floppy boot disk. During this process bad things can happen. In the case of my laptop, the computer shut down and subsequently will only power up for about 5 seconds. Tabernus tech support did the predicable; it was my computer, it was the battery, but it could not possibly be there wonderful software. Buyer beware!

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