DABN - Darik's Boot and Nuke is a self-contained boot floppy or ISO image that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

What makes DBAN so popular?

￭ It's Free.
￭ It's Fast. Rapid deployment in emergency situations.
￭ It's Easy. Start the computer with DBAN and press the ENTER key.
￭ It's Safe. Irrecoverable data destruction. Prevents most forensic data recovery techniques.

Wipe Methods
￭ Quick Erase
￭ Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II Standard Wipe
￭ American DoD 5220-22.M Standard Wipe
￭ Gutmann Wipe
￭ PRNG Stream Wipe


Enhancements
￭ 8/33/137 gigabyte disk size BIOS limit fix
￭ Fast PRNG (Mersenne Twister)
￭ Entropy Seeding
￭ Verification
￭ Logging
￭ Hardware Drivers
￭ Controllers: XT, IDE, PATA, SATA, SCSI
￭ Consoles: Serial, HGA, VGA
￭ Buses: ISA, MCA, PCI

Platform Support

Hardware
￭ DBAN has all available drivers for SCSI disks.
￭ DBAN has all available drivers for IDE, PATA, and SATA disks.
￭ DBAN runs on all 32-bit x86-class computers (Athlon, Pentium, and others) with at least 8 megs of memory. If you find an incompatible machine, then please report it.

Software
DBAN supports all Microsoft platforms and securely destroys FAT, VFAT, and NTFS filesytems.
￭ MS-DOS, Windows 3.1
￭ Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME
￭ Windows NT 3.0, Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0
￭ Windows 2000, Windows XP

DBAN supports all unix platforms and securely destroys ReiserFS, EXT, and UFS filesystems.
￭ FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
￭ Linux
￭ BeOS
￭ QNX

DBAN comes in two formats, first as a Floppy image and second as an ISO image which you can burn on a CD-ROM.

WARNING! Use this software only if you know what you are doing, because you will NOT be able to recover anything from the deleted hard drives.

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