A visual guide of screens for the: 1. Downloading of software, 2. Installation of program, 3. Creation of Boot Media, 4. Booting and running of Active@
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A visual guide of screens for the:1.Downloading of software,2.Installation of program,3.Creation of Boot Media,4.Booting and running of Active@ KillDisk,5.Erasing Disks with Active@ KillDisk,6.Additional Support
Downloading Active@ KillDiskIf you already have access to the KillDisk installer, you may skip the next four slides. Got to the Installing KillDisk section.
This screen shows the login page to access your registered version of the software.https://secure.lsoft.net/clients/
Once logged into the Customer Communication Center, you may click on the “RE-DOWNLOAD” link to access the installation program. You may save the file to any location on a network share or local workstation.https://secure.lsoft.net/clients/
This screen will appear, prompting you to regenerate your registered version. Click on the “Email Me Registration Info” to receive a live download access link.
After clicking the button, a message stating “Software registration info has been successfully e-mailed” will appear.
The main installation file for Active@ KillDisk is called:“KillDiskSuite-Setup.exe” .Double clicking this file will commence installation of the Desktop software and boot media creation tools.
Click Next to the initial setup dialog window.The following dialog is the End-user license agreement, click Next after reviewing the license agreement.
The left hand screen displays the default location where the KillDisk software will be installed. Click Browse to change the location or Next to accept the default.The right hand screen displays the available components to be installed. It is recommended to select all options and click Next to proceed with installation.
The left hand screen displays a confirmation of installation. Click Next to proceed or Back to change previous options.The right hand screen displays the installation of files to the selected location.
On the final screen of the installation process, you may continue into the creation of the Active@ KillDisk Boot Media. You may also uncheck the check box to create the boot media at another time.
The left hand screen displays the Windows Start-up menu, showing the Active@ KillDisk program group and the “Bootable Disk Creator” icon. This start the boot disk creation program.The right hand screen displays the installation of files. You may use any third-party ISO burning program to burn the images to CD/DVD
The Boot Disk Creator program has the ability to create either the DOS boot media or the Windows boot media. This guide will go through the creation of the Windows boot media. The options are generally the same for either DOS or Windows.
In the next step of the Boot Disk Creator, you may select either “CD/DVD Boot Disk” or “USB Flash Boot Disk”. ( the DOS option has the added option of a floppy boot disk.
Booting from Active@ KillDiskWith the correct boot device selected, the system will start to boot from the media. In this case, the CD/DVD device is booting into the Windows edition of Active@ KillDisk.
The loading of Windows in this screen is actually a light-weight edition of WIN-PE.
Erasing with Active@ KillDiskOnce the boot media has loaded, you will be presented with the Active@ KillDisk screen for Windows. This screen displays all recognized hard disk and removable disk devices.
To select a disk for erasure, highlight the physical disk listed as Hard Disk (80h). To commence complete erasure of the entire drive, click on the Kill button in the toolbar.
Erasing with Active@ KillDiskOnce the boot media has loaded, you will be presented with the Active@ KillDisk screen for DOS. This screen displays all recognized hard disk and removable disk devices.
To select a disk for erasure, highlight the physical disk listed as Hard Disk (80h). To commence complete erasure of the entire drive, press F10 to commence erasing.