Resources

Guides to wiping drives the right way

Practical, no-nonsense guides to securely sanitizing drives for disposal or resale, with a verified certificate for every wipe.

• How ProofWipe wipes a drive, and proves it

  The exact method: NIST 800-88 Clear or Purge, read-back verification, fail-closed honesty, and a tamper-evident certificate anyone can check. Nothing taken on faith.

• How to wipe & resell workstations

  The full step-by-step: build a bootable stick, wipe each machine to NIST 800-88, and keep a verified certificate for every PC. No IT team required.

• Drive health & resale grading

  ProofWipe reads SMART/NVMe health data and grades each drive Healthy, Caution, or Failing before you wipe, with the grade recorded on the certificate for the buyer.

• How to wipe a server (multi-drive / RAID)

  Present each disk individually (break hardware RAID to HBA), then batch-wipe SATA / NVMe / SAS drives in Windows or boot the stick, each verified, with its own certificate.

• Wipe a laptop with soldered storage

  Can’t remove the drive? Sanitize a soldered SSD in place with a firmware Purge (Surface and ultrabooks included) with no disassembly, and a certificate to prove it.

• NIST 800-88 Clear vs Purge

  The difference between the two levels in plain terms, and why any SSD or NVMe drive needs Purge, not just an overwrite.

• DBAN alternative for SSD / NVMe

  Why DBAN’s overwrite can’t properly sanitize modern flash, leaves no proof, and is unmaintained, and what to use instead.

• What a certificate of data destruction should show

  Drive and serial, method, verification result, date, and a tamper-evident fingerprint. How to tell a real, verifiable certificate from a typed-in template.

• Certificate database: manage & verify certificates

  A Business-tier tool that gathers every certificate of destruction from all your sources into one place, re-verifies each one, and exports a CSV or a clean per-client PDF report.

• PIPEDA & BC privacy: wiping drives for compliance

  How PIPEDA, BC FOIPPA, and privacy impact assessments treat drive disposal, and how a verified wipe with a certificate supports it. Background, not legal advice.