Darik’s Boot and Nuke DVD. Wipe any Hard Drive

Description

This software is part of a DVD software compilation that has several programs that are commonly used to diagnose and repair computers that are not functioning properly. While most sellers offer one program with a lot of disk space left over, this DVD contains several utilities to diagnose and repair your computer whether it is Windows or Linux.
Wipe a Hard Drive with Darik’s Boot and Nuke
Whenever you’re selling or giving away computer or upgrading your hard drive or SSD for something bigger and faster, you need to ensure the data on the hard drive is totally wiped out. That’s because your hard drive is a treasure trove of personal information. If you don’t erase your hard drive before getting rid of it, your personal files or folders could easily get into the wrong hands.
An interesting study was done, in which hundreds of computers were bought secondhand and scoured for personal data. They found a lot. Some drives even had enough data to completely steal the previous owner’s identity.
Simple deleting or formatting does not actually wipe a hard drive. When you format a hard drive or delete a partition, you’re usually only deleting the file system, making the data invisible, but not gone. A hard drive recovery software or specific hardware can easily recover the deleted files or information.
So for the sake of your private information security, you absolutely need to wipe the hard drive before handing your drive over to someone else. Darik’s Boot And Nuke (DBAN) is just that special drive eraser software and can help you with that.
Darik’s Boot and Nuke instructions
Darik’s Boot and Nuke, also know as
DBAN
is a free data eraser program that securely and completely wipes your hard drive. All your installed applications, personal files, and even the operating system will be removed and no longer recoverable anymore.
DBAN is designed to wipe all data from a physical hard drive, including all of the drive’s partitions. It doesn’t matter how many files are on the drive, what types of files exist, what file system the drive was formatted with, etc.
However, DBAN does not work with SSDs. If you have a Solid State Drive, DBAN will not be able to detect it and so it cannot erase data from it.
If you run DBAN against a hard drive, it will overwrite every single bit of data on it, preventing even the  style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s;">best data recovery programs from retrieving any deleted data from it.
DBAN can wipe data off a disk using one of the following data sanitization methods:
DoD 5220.22-M
RCMP TSSIT OPS-II
Gutmann
Random Data
Write Zero
DVD only. Doesn't include a label.