WARNING: The following program, when used as a start up, can and will, delete data unrecoverably. I take no responsibility for what you do with this program.
Darik’s Boot and Nuke, where do I begin?
First let me start by apologizing that there will be no screen shots for this program because none would survive… which is ok, because while DBAN is a Good program, it sure is Ugly.
DBAN is a self-contained, Linux based program, that can be put on a floppy or CD, to be used as a data destroying tool. Basically, DBAN will wipe a hard drive thoroughly.
The creator of DBAN says emergency data destruction, however, DBAN has never seemed very fast to me. Every time I run it I just type ‘autonuke’ and let the program run its course. It has taken about 3 hours to clean my 80gb hard drive. However there are other options besides ‘autonuke’ which you can have DBAN run, I have never thoroughly explored them.
