I tried DBAN v.1.0.5 when one of my computers became hopelessly perplexed after multiple installations of various Linux and Windows operating systems. DBAN does not work at all on USB drives, FireWire drives, or hardware RAID devices. DBAN uses Linux to boot up, and can wipe IDE, SATA, XT, and SCSI hard drives. In addition to removing personal data, DBAN can also be used to return drives to a pristine state for reuse. DBAN is powerful stuff and has been used by US federal agencies, such as the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), to prepare machines for disposal. When DBAN is finished with your hard drives, the master boot record, partition table, and every sector of the drive will have been overwritten in accordance with one of five well-regarded industry guidelines. Thanks to the work of developer Darik Horn, there’s an excellent tool to wipe data off of a hard disk: Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN). Do you know what happened to your data when you disposed of your last PC? With identity theft on the rise, it’s important to make sure your information is removed before you get rid of that old hard drive.
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