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CopyWipe is a free hard drive copy and secure wipe utility. CopyWipe can ease and expedite the transition to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another. CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive. A number of options are provided for wiping, most of which exceed governmental standards (such as DoD 5220.22-M, NAVSO P-5239-26, etc.), this allows the user to choose an optimal balance between security and duration of the wiping operation.

CopyWipe duplicates the entire contents of the source hard drive to the target hard drive with options for sizing the partitions on the target hard drive, but regardless of which copy options are selected, the actual content of the target drive will be identical to that of the source drive.

CopyWipe securely wipes hard drive by overwrites the entire contents of the hard drive, with the sole intent of making the original data unrecoverable by any practical means. The Random – 1 Pass wipe option should be sufficient for making the overwritten contents of the hard drive unrecoverable by software, while the Random– 4 Pass and Random – 8 Pass options may provide a higher level of security.

A USB 2.0-to-IDE adapter, along with CopyWipe provides a convenient method to create and maintain a complete hard drive mirrored backup.

Two versions of CopyWipe are available: CopyWipe for DOS, and CopyWipe for Windows. As the names imply, each version is designed for use in a different operating system environment. Except as noted, both versions of CopyWipe appear and function identically. To download the latest version of CopyWipe, visit https://terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php.