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Review and how it works
DBAN -Darik's Boot and Nuke was intended as an open source auto-run application able to permanently delete the hard disk of the personal computers.
DBAN is made to securely clean a hard drive until all the sensitive data becomes unrecoverable. Practically it replaces the existing data writing random uniformly distributed numbers produced with Mersenne twister algorithm.
If the user wishes to sell its personal computer, then a totally hard drive data annihilation is absolutely necessary. It is the finest modality to avoid the stealing and further usage of personal data and identity.
The DBAN Wipe application may be considered a good modality to totally clean Windows installation of virus program and spyware.
Rooted in Linux, this HDD deletion application may be opened from a simple floppy disk, CD, or using USB flash drive.
IDE, SCSI and SATA hard drives may be processed with this application (securely delete).
If the users require a new, clean install on their PC, then they may use it to totally wipe their computer before starting. Once copied this utility to a removable storage media (CD or floppy) boot to this, and press enter button. It will totally clean the information written on each hard disk.
Brief details
The Gutmann technique is incorporated within the application.
Unrecovable data deletion.
It uses renowned cleaning standars.
No data remanance.
Wipe the disks!
How to install & uninstall DBAN - system requirements
It can be used on 32-bit x86 processors class PC with minimum 8 MB RAM.
Comes with option for all MS platforms and recognizes FAT, VirtualFAT and NTFS standard filesytems.
It removes EXT, ReiserFS and Unix file system.
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