Remote data wipe, from your browser.

Search for "remote wipe" and you'll mostly find device management: an IT team resetting a lost laptop or phone. That's a factory reset. Microsoft's own documentation says the default Intune wipe is equivalent to "Reset this PC" with drive cleaning switched off, and that the reset's erasure option "does not meet government and industry data erasure standards."

Remote data wipe in reCore means verified erasure of each drive, started from your browser. The machine boots into reCore, the drive gets a purge method where it supports one, the result is checked, and the drive gets its own record and certificate.

Walking to each machine, starting a wipe and waiting is the slow part of every floor. From the Drives page you can select drives across all connected machines and start them in one go. Each one still gets its own method, its own check and its own record.

• Select drives across every connected station, then confirm once
• The method is chosen per drive, from what that drive supports
• Live progress for every drive, from any browser
• Wipes run on the machines themselves, so they finish even if the internet drops

A station is any machine booted into reCore from a USB stick, with an internet connection. So a refresh at a customer's office, a second warehouse or a branch can be wiped on site while you start and watch it from yours. Devices that will be redeployed inside the same organization don't need to travel to be wiped.

That saves freight and handling, and it shrinks the window in which an unwiped device is in transit. Our guide to remote data wipe works through the carbon numbers.

With many erasure setups, wiping over the network is the expensive part: a separately licensed management console, a network edition priced on request, a PXE boot server to build and maintain, or an erasure appliance. reCore was built around the cloud dashboard from the start, so remote wiping isn't an extra layer. It's how wiping works.

Nothing physical ships, in either direction. Whoever runs the floor downloads the reCore OS from their account and writes it to any USB stick. On request, we prepare a custom, preconfigured image for your organization. The devices stay where they are.

• The drive a machine is running from is hidden from the Drives list, and the station refuses to wipe it if asked
• The station re-checks each drive before it starts, rather than trusting what the dashboard sent
• Only operators and admins can start a wipe, and a bulk wipe asks for confirmation
• A certificate needs a second person's approval: the one who started the wipe can't approve it
• Failed attempts stay on the drive's record

Remote wipe is included in every reCore plan. A wipe costs one credit per drive, whether it was started at the station or from the dashboard, and re-wiping the same drive is free for 30 days after its charge. See pricing.

• It doesn't wipe laptops still running Windows or macOS out in the field: the machine has to be booted into reCore
• You can't cancel a wipe, shut down or reboot a machine from the dashboard
• The dashboard can't show live progress from a station while it's offline (the wipe still finishes and syncs)