Wiping hard drives – DBAN – Darik’s Boot And Nuke
I recently went on a quest to find a tool to wipe four hard drives in some machines at work. I hadn’t wiped a drive in years, and was pleasantly surprised to get more than one suggestion for DBAN, or Darik’s Boot and Nuke.
From http://www.dban.org/:
Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk 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.
I’d have to say, it has definitely lived up to its name. I downloaded the ISO image, burned it to a CD and several unattended hours later I had four clean machines. You boot one, remove the CD, and move on to the next machine.
Now I just need to find a new home for these machines.