AEVITA Erase Hard Drive: README =============================== Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation" chapter) before installing the program to your computer. Contents -------- Program information Company information Description Requirements Installation Uninstallation History Registration Copyright and license Technical support Program information ------------------- Program Archive Name: eraseharddrivedemo_setup.exe Program Name: AEVITA Erase Hard Drive Program Version: 1.1 Program Release Date: December 5, 2005 Program Description: Permanently erase all data from a floppy disk or hard drive beyond recovery! Target OS: Windows 9x, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP Software type: Shareware Company information ------------------- Company Name: AEVITA Software Ltd. Contact E-mail Address: support@aevita.com Contact WWW URL: http://www.aevita.com Company Registered Office: AEVITA Software Ltd. 5 Jupiter house Calleva park, Reading Berks RG7 8NN Description ----------- When you are giving away your hard drive or selling off your old computer, you are "licensing" the third party to access your old e-mail, private customer information, corporate secrets, and other sensitive data. Even if you have deleted all data from your computer's hard disk and reformatted the drive, with the proper recovery tools someone could retrieve your previously deleted files and even gather your personal information from the disk space of your computer. If you want to completely destroy your sensitive data on the disk, without leaving a chance for someone to have your data recovered, use the AEVITA Erase Hard Drive utility. When you delete your data using AEVITA Erase Hard Drive, all traces of the data are removed from the disk so that the data cannot be retrieved even by using disk recovery software. Your private information will be 100% gone, and your data will be completely destroyed. AEVITA Erase Hard Drive uses the industry-accepted government and military strength algorithms to ensure the complete data wiping and assure you of the utmost security of your sensitive, personal or confidential data. The program works with all standard hard drives and floppy disks and operates independently of the operating system or any data that may exist on the target disk. Best of all, it is quick, easy to use, and compatible with any PC running Windows operating system. Once a disk has been erased with AEVITA Erase Hard Drive, no data recovery tools, regardless of their level of sophistication, will be able to recover any data that previously existed on the disk. Don't leave a chance for someone to have your data recovered - destroy your sensitive, personal or confidential data beyond recovery now! Requirements ------------ Minimum requirements: - IBM PC-compatible computer; - Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP or Windows NT; - 2.2 Mb hard drive space. Installation ------------ Important! If you've got AEVITA Erase Hard Drive not from our web page, but from the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version; usually, we release the updates about once a month. To install AEVITA Erase Hard Drive, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the instructions. Uninstallation -------------- To uninstall AEVITA Erase Hard Drive from your computer, open the Control Panel and double-click on "Add/Remove Programs" applet. Then select AEVITA Erase Hard Drive from the list and click the Add/Remove button. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen. History ------- See "history.txt" file. Registration ------------ See "order.txt" file. Copyright and license --------------------- See "license.txt" file. Technical support ----------------- Before you contact us, please do the following: - Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make mistakes sometimes... Be attentive. - Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how do I:", though the complete information is there. - Visit AEVITA Erase Hard Drive home page in the Internet at http://www.aevita.com/eraseharddrive/. It's a good chance that you'll find the newer version of AEVITA Erase Hard Drive there. If the serious bug has been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet, we make the hot fix for it. But if you still have a problem with AEVITA Erase Hard Drive and noting else helps, please contact technical support at support@aevita.com. Please inform us about the following: - AEVITA Erase Hard Drive version (from "About" Tab) - where did you get AEVITA Erase Hard Drive (http or ftp site) - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP version (including service packs and other fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory - description of your problem (as much information as possible to retrieve the problem) Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of Windows 95 in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following URL: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/2/38.asp In order to get the complete computer information (working under Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab. If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases, please don't hesitate to post them to us.