Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN), besides having s spiffy name, is trivially easy to use and as secure as most humans will need (probably unrecoverable by most smaller governments). Boot floppy and CD's are provided. It is GPL. It mentions White Canyon's product though :-).
I have used it for bulk wiping of sensitive data (corporate financial as well as Church financial and membership records).
Expect it to take a while on a large disk when using one of the more secure methods (it took about 12 hours on a 30GB laptop drive using the DoD method).
Be sure you have everything you want before even having the floppy/CD in the same room as a machine you care about. Oh the pain of accidental early permanent erasure...
Adam Augustine
Derek Davis wrote:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:51:43PM -0600, John Noll said:
I'm trying to sell my laptop, and would like to scrub the Hard Drive clean; so my personal files, financial data, etc. are not recoverable to the new owner. Is there a good utility to use to scrub a hard drive clean, so the data is not recoverable? Would Eraser work? I'm trying to figure out a utility that is running on an OS could delete that OS. Ummmh?
Anyway, any pointers?
thanks,
john
Since others will mention the other ways of doing it, I'll support my company. :) At www.whitecanyon.com, you can buy the Free as in "Not at all free in any way" program called wipedrive. This will create a boot floppy that will wipe your entire hard drive, partitions and all. Nice little program.
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