Disk Doctors Data Sanitizer work not only by unlinking a file but also specifically overwriting them with garbage data. For very high security installations, overwiting the file several times is advised. Many government institutions have specific disk wiping standards for file deletion. Particularly, the U.S. DoD specification 5220.22 standard says a file must be overwritten three times.Disk Doctors Data Sanitizer a Data Eraser Utility is designed to do the same job. Data Eraser eliminates data file(s) in different directories with a stroke of a key shredding sensitive data beyond recovery.

Data Eraser offers 9 sanitisation standards for disk wiping, and they are:

* Fast Zero Overwrite
* Random Overwrite
* US Navy, NAVSO P-5239-26 – RLL
* US Department of Defense (DoD 5220.22-M)
* DOD Standard 5220.28 STD
* North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO standard
* Peter Gutmann Secure Deletion
* German:VSITR
* US Department of Defense (DoD 5220.22-M) + Gutmann Method