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Lowvel for Windows

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Lowvel is a free tool designed to irreversibly erase data from various storage devices. It performs zero-filling, preventing any data recovery. Useful for secure device disposal, bad sector reallocation, and SSD performance improvement.
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  • Pros

    • Irreversibly erases data from diverse storage devices.
    • Supports rotational hard drives, SSDs, and USB thumb drives.
    • Overwrites data with zeroes (zero-filling) for security.
    • Prevents recovery by software or data recovery services.
    • Can reallocate bad sectors on hard drives.

  • Cons

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Lowvel for Windows

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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
build-56
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 10
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
2,404
Downloads Last Week
2
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By ReclaiMe
Erase data from various storage devices irreversibly.
Lowvel is a free tool to erase data irreversibly from various data storage devices such as rotational hard drives, SSDs, and USB thumb drives. Sometimes, such irreversible data erasing is called low level format.When running, Lowvel overwrites data stored on the device with zeroes, i.e. performs so called zero-filling. Lowvel can be useful when you want to: erase all the data on the device irreversibly - for example if you are going to sale the device; force a device to reallocate bad sectors - e.g. if you plan to use a second-hand hard drive; improve write performance of an SSD which is not TRIM-capable.Once you erased all the data using Lowvel, neither a data recovery software nor a data recovery service will be able to recover this data.
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