BCWipe Total WipeOut
- For Enterprises

Leave no trace behind.

Everything comes to an end, including the lives of classified computers.

So how do you securely dispose of computers when you upgrade to a new system?

Or how do you confidently decommission workstations at the end of a classified project?

The solution is BCWipe Total WipeOut from Jetico.

When you work with confidential or classified data, sensitive information is saved to your hard drives. If you fail to completely eliminate this data before decommissioning, repurposing or disposing of your PC, laptop or external hard drive – you may as well hand your critical information to a stranger.

Licensing For Enterprises
One (1) license For Enterprises entitles you to download our software to make one (1) copy of BCWipe Total WipeOut (on a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive). Each copy with a license For Enterprises may be used to wipe an unlimited amount of hard drives. So, if you have two (2) facilities that each needs their own copy, then you would need two (2) licenses.

Approved for use by the U.S. Department of Defense, BCWipe Total WipeOut can erase hard drive data entirely. Before disposal, decommission or reuse of a laptop, desktop, external hard drive or other removable media, BCWipe Total WipeOut lets you be certain that all private data has been erased without any chance of recovery.

BCWipe Total WipeOut^TM (formerly known as BCWipePD) is run from a bootable disk to permanently erase all contents of an entire hard drive, including boot records, file system structures and operating system files.

When would you need to wipe an entire hard drive?

• Before sending the drive for physical destruction
• To repurpose drives between classified programs
• When a hard drive with proprietary information fails under warranty
• To donate used unclassified computers

When files are deleted normally from a disk on your computer, the operating system (for example, Windows or Linux) does not actually erase contents of these files from the disk - it only deletes 'references' on these files from file system tables. Contents of the deleted file (or the file's body) continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily recovered using any undelete utility.

Wiping is a term used to describe a process of shredding contents of a file or disk space so as to make it impossible to recover or restore any data.

The BCWipe Total WipeOut utility is designed for high-security applications and environments – such as conducting a DoD wipe or for using in government agencies, banks and large corporations -- anywhere there is a need to safely eliminate all contents of hard drives before computers are retired or removed from the premises.

BCWipe Total WipeOut is a powerful software utility designed to quickly and efficiently wipe disks on large number of computers without wasting time to actually install the program on every computer.

Wiping a whole hard drive (or all hard drives) on a computer with BCWipe Total WipeOut is a simple procedure - just boot the computer using a BCWipe Total WipeOut bootable CD (or USB flash drive) and confirm wiping. BCWipe Total WipeOut can also be run with command-line parameters.

For Linux systems, BCWipe Total WipeOut runs from a bootable CD (or USB flash drive) using a kernel of the Linux operating system. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Linux is distributed according to GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). Source code of the Linux kernel version 2.6.12 used on the bootable disk is available for download from www.kernel.org. Text of GNU GPL is included into BCWipe Total WipeOut distribution.

BCWipe Total WipeOut Features

The BCWipe Total WipeOut software utility destroys contents of whole hard drives, including partition tables, boot records, filesystem structures, operating system files and user files. It includes the following important features:

• Wiping procedure can be run on any hardware platform with x386 and 64-bit AMD/Intel architecture, regardless of operating system installed on the computer.
• BCWipe Total WipeOut can wipe all hard drives on the computer including the one where operating system is installed.
• Contents of hard drives are wiped regardless of filesystem used to format the drives (FAT, NTFS, HPFS or other).
• BCWipe Total WipeOut can wipe IDE, SATA, SCSI hard drives, removable disk devices (for example, USB hard drives, flash memory).
• The utility allows the user to customize and conduct a "DoD wipe" wiping scheme according to U.S. Department of Defense recommendations to destroy data (DoD 5220.22-M) or according to Peter Gutmann 35-pass wiping scheme, or use your own customized wiping scheme.
• BCWipe Total WipeOut is designed to provide a high performance of shredding data. On modern hard drives performance of 1-pass wiping can be 30-60 MBytes/sec and more. So a 7-pass U.S. DoD wipe performance will be 4-8 MBytes/sec.
• BCWipe Total WipeOut can wipe several hard drives in parallel. This feature significantly improves the overall performance of wiping multiple hard drives simultaneously, especially if they are connected to different controllers on the motherboard.
• BCWipe Total WipeOut recognizes and can wipe Host Protected Area (HPA) on hard drives.
• BCWipe Total WipeOut can identify the number of sectors hidden by the Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) function (present since ATA-6 standard) and can wipe the DCO hidden sectors.
• BCWipe Total WipeOut can write wiping results to a floppy or USB removable drive.

Using BCWipe Total WipeOut

BCWipe Total WipeOut is distributed as a self-extracted installation program that can be run on computers with Windows operating systems.

When you create a BCWipe Total WipeOut bootable CD (or USB flash drive), it can run on any computer with an x386 hardware platform and running any operating system already installed on the computer. BCWipe Total WipeOut wiping functions can be run automatically or manually on the computer.

Please keep in mind that computers may freeze after seeing an "Uncompressing Linux..." message because Linux kernel conflicts with ACPI on some hardware configurations. Try to disable ACPI in BIOS, then boot again with BCWipe Total WipeOut CD (or USB flash drive).

BCWipe Total WipeOut ISO Configuration Wizard

BCWipe Total WipeOut includes an ISO Configuration Wizard for preparing an ISO image of a BCWipe Total WipeOut bootable disk.

The BCWipe Total WipeOut ISO Configuration Wizard runs on computers with Windows operating system. The program helps to create a bootable disk used to wipe hard drives according to your requirements.

Jetico's military-standard data protection solutions such as BCWipe Total WipeOut are trusted by 15,000+ customers in over 100 countries:

• Government & Military Agencies
• All of the Top 10 Defense Contractors
• National Laboratories
• Hospitals and Medical Organizations
• Financial and Insurance Services
• Universities and School Districts
• Small Business and Personal Users