Customer Reviews

Tabernus Disk Purge Home Edition

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I have an IBM thinkpad and Seagate 160GB USB external drive that I want to sell. Purchased Secure Erase but it did not work with my laptop. Decided to try Disk Purge which booted up and found both devices. Very easy product to use. Works great!

I purchased this software to purge the hard drives of several laptops. They were older model laptops with widely varying configurations, so I ran into some problems. I sent an e-mail to the support e-mail address and received a response almost immediately. The technical support that I received was absolutely first rate and the issues that I ran into were resolved in very quick order. I am very pleased with my purchase of this product.

I purchased a similar product first and when my queries to support went unaswered over the period of a week, I simply returned it.

In a support world peopled by obtuse, arrogant, unresponsive, geeks, support at Disk Purge is a welcome change. Easy to reach, quick to respond and eager to go the extra mile, they bent over backwards to help me through an atypical issue.

HIGLY RECOMMEDNDED!

We recently got a new computer and sent our old one back to Dell for recycling. Before mailing it we wanted to get all sensitive material off the hard drive. The Tabernus Disk Purge seemed to do the job quite well. The only fault I can find with it is that you can not purge individual items on the drive and leave the rest for the next user.

I am a professor who has been using computers for about 25 years. I bought Disk Purge because it was the least expensive. They don't mention that using it on older models, one has to create a floppy boot disk. During this process bad things can happen. In the case of my laptop, the computer shut down and subsequently will only power up for about 5 seconds. Tabernus tech support did the predicable; it was my computer, it was the battery, but it could not possibly be there wonderful software. Buyer beware!

This is a total piece of crap. I kept getting a 'reboot error' message, when I emailed the Tabernus people I got a canned response that was totally irrelevant. Good luck trying to call if you run into any problems...ended up charging the whole thing back and throwing this piece of s..t away.

It wipes your hard drive clean, but if you never used a computer without the assistance of an operating system, you have a learning experience ahead of you. The supplied instructions are inadequate. You need the maker's online explanations to get the job done. So, unless you have another computer available, get the online info before you start using the hardware.

Wanted something to clean up our hard drive so we could pass on our computer to another family & feel safe that our info could not be found and used---this wiped out everything---did a very good job

If you want to reformat the hard disk and reinstall an operating system after using Disk Purge, DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT! The hard disk will not recognize fdisk or format c: using the start up disk. The C: drive is history. The computer guru's at Best Buy couldn't fix the problem and my e-mails to Tabernus went unanswered.

You can't wipe just the free space on a partition or drive with this. It will only wipe the entire partition or disk.