Wiping Out Data

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:57:29AM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> I am looking for an app to completely wipe out the data (kinda walking 1s and
> 0s)....
> 
> Any such app any of you can recommend?

The canonical answer here is Darik's Boot and Nuke:

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Burn a small file to a CD, reboot from that CD, and voila:
it'll wipe the hard drives you tell it to wipe. Its design
goal seems to be: help the user wipe out data when there's
an emergency. I believe it can be set to wipe data off every
hard drive it finds.

So yes, DBAN. There's really no better tool for it. Check
the FAQ <http://dban.sourceforge.net/faq/> for evidence that
Darik has thought about the details of data wiping more than
any other commercial product.

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