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| Lisa
D. selected DiskDeleter Download version |
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| Lisa had a three-year-old computer
that she decided to upgrade. After noticing a good deal
in the local paper for a new computer she decided to
sell the old one instead. But before she could do that
she faced a dilemma: what to do with all her personal
information on the hard drive? |
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She knew that even if
she deleted it all, someone could still bring it back and for
erasing it permanently,
she would need to overwrite
data three times. Concerned
with the possibility of identity theft she searched on the
web for a solution, but all the products looked the same
and she could not make up her mind. After a friend suggested
her to download DiskDeleter from www.bluestsoft.com,
she tried it and figured out that how easily she could make
it work, just double clicking the program. She decided to
follow her friend's suggestion and easily cleared her whole
drive. |
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Lisa now owns a new computer and
a piece of mind that no one will ever be able to bring the
data back on the one she sold.“With DiskDeleter there is
no need to burn a CD or making a floppy. With a couple of
simple instructions I could delete the drive, verify its
content with before and after snapshots, and sell my computer
with a piece of mind.” |
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| Tom
W. purchased DiskDeleter ZW |
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| Tom was a computer novice. He
bought a new computer and was thinking about giving his
old computer to his friend. When Tom spoke with his friend
about it, she suggested he erase the data on the computer,
but not spend too much time or money on it. |
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Tom
understood that for erasing data permanently he would need
to use DiskDeleter, but knowing that the data on the computer
was not very important to him, he wanted to just run a routine
that would clear the drive. DiskDeleter offered him
two options. One was to do a full delete, which required
DiskDeleter to overwrite the data more than thrice. The
other option and the most economical one were to overwrite
it once. Tom understood that for erasing data permanently,
it is important to overwrite data three times, but he also
understood that by overwriting data even one time, it is
impossible to recover the data by any data recovery software
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As Tom was a computer beginner,
he used the computer mostly for Email and Internet. He had
Email data, his friends’ addresses, Internet data, etc.,
and did not have critical information such as credit card,
bank account, etc. Besides, he would give the computer to
his friend, not to a complete stranger. When weighed the
risk, he felt confident that to delete the data he could
get by erasing it only ones. Tom chose DiskDeleter ZW, which
cost just $9.95. |
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| Mark K. chose DiskDeleter Floppy version |
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| Mark had a 10-year-old
desktop computer and wanted to recycle it securely. When
he was thinking about throwing it away, his friend
Kevin who is computer savvy said to him, “Mark,
you’ve got to think about your personal data stored
in this old computer. You may feel that it is garbage,
but you never know if someone could use it against
you. You should remove the hard drive and break
it in pieces or use software, which deletes hard
drive data” Mark did not want to bother with the
hardware, so he decided to buy the software. |
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When he was going through the data on the computer he realized that he had hidden files on it that he forgot about and definitely wanted gone. Upon Kevin’s recommendation, Mark decided to use DiskDeleter. In the DiskDeleter product line, Mark found three options, DiskDeleter Download, DiskDeleter CD, and DiskDeleter Floppy that supported DOD 5220.22-M (US Department of Defense standards). Mark’s old computer had a floppy device, so he finally decided to buy DiskDeleter Floppy, which cost $19.95 |
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| Carol
I. bought DiskDeleter Download version |
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| Carol was a heavy user
and had five PCs at home. She wanted to donate
one of them. Carol knew what she should do before
donating her PC, so she bought DiskDeleter Download
version, which cost $39.95. The reason why she
did not choose DiskDeleter CD or Floppy version
was because she did not want to burn a CD or create
a Floppy and also Download version came with CD
and Floppy versions anyway. |
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Carol ordered DiskDeleter and downloaded it to the PC. She double clicked the execution file and followed simple instructions to erase her PC’s data securely. Then she sent the PC to NPO. |
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After a while, Carol also wanted
to improve the performance of one of her other PCs. The PC's
performance became significantly slower over time and it
seemed infected with a virus or spyware. The DiskDeleter
license allowed her to use DiskDeleter
on multiple PCs she owned, so Carol decided to erase the
PC’s data and to start over. She unfortunately forgot where
she saved DiskDeleter, but that was not a problem since when
she purchased DiskDeleter she automatically received a one
year subscription to the DiskDeleter website and could download
it again if she needed it; she erased the PC's data, reinstalled
Windows XP and restored the its performance. |
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| Dave
H. chose a Site License |
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Dave was an MIS manager at ABC
Company.
His boss told him to erase all data when any
one user would change computers. His company had 500
computers and he was wondering how he could do this efficiently.
After doing some research, Dave found DiskDeleter. |
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There were two important points for him to consider in choosing a product. One was
"delete performance" and the other was "easy to
use". Regarding "delete performance", Dave
didn't want to waste his time to wait for completing delete
process for a long time. He evaluated some software products
and some took a couple of days to erase even one hard drive.
However, when he tried DiskDeleter, he was surprised at its
speed. DiskDeleter
could delete drives at 21sec/1GB. About "easy to
use", since DiskDeleter supported Client/Server environment, Dave could store DiskDeleter on his company's server and it could be accessed from any client computers with access to the file just by double clicking an icon. His company also had computers that were not connected to a LAN, but since DiskDeleter package came with a Floppy and CD versions, he had no problems with those either. |
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Dave found the right product, but
he still had another concern. The company had multiple offices
and there was a possibility that he had to take care of more
computers than just the ones at his location. He contacted
BluestSoft
sales and
decided to select a Site License that provided unlimited
use capability. |
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