The BIOS will ask for user confirmation twice before allowing the user to exit setup with the ' Wipe on Next Boot' option selected to ensure that the user intends to erase all storage devices.Īs an added safety measure the BIOS will adjust the default selection for the final prompt to further enforce direct user acceptance of this operation. Once in the BIOS Setup application the user can select 'Wipe on Next Boot' from the Maintenance->Data Wipe option to invoke data wipe for all internal drives after the reboot. At the Dell splash screen press F2 to enter BIOS Setup. The Data Wipe feature is invoked from within BIOS Setup.

All internal drives in the system are wiped, no option to wipe only certain storage devices.

(Customers can use Dell vPro Extensions for remote erase, see Managing Dell Business Client Systems Out of Band using Intel AMT vPro for more info on remote erase.) User must be physically present until drive wipe begins.

Only accessible by a physically present user.

See NIST Special Publication 800-88 Guidelines for Media Sanitization for more details.

Uses industry standard approved methods for data wipe such as Secure Erase for SATA and Sanitize for eMMC.

Supports internal storage devices only: SATA HDD, SSD, and eMMC depending on the device types supported by the system.

Since customer data is a priority for Dell we designed this feature for maximum compatibility and minimal potential for unintentional data erase. This allows efficient erasure for re-purpose or redeployment using industry standard data wipe capabilities already supported by Dell storage devices. Dell Data Wipe is a feature in Dell Enterprise Client BIOS that gives our customers the ability to invoke a data wipe of the internal storage devices in their system.

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