Darik's Boot 'n Nuke

[yesthattom]

Need to throw away or sell 500 or so PCs? Don't want the buyer to be able to read the data from the hard disk?

Darik's Boot 'n' Nuke is a mini-Linux distro (image for Floppy and CD-ROM). You boot on it, it erases every disk on the computer. You get one chance to say, "No, I didn't mean to do it."

I tried a package called "Autoclave" but this was much faster and betterer.

Plus, "Boot 'N Nuke" is a much better name.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/dban/

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I was wondering why that hadn't come up. I guess it's too time-consuing to take each drive out, unless you think you really have to.

[maxdwolf.livejournal.com]

I have no doubt that it's costing MUCH more than Boot'n'Nuke. Thing is, it's data of such little value that I can't see a hostile nation or greedy corporation going to any trouble to retrieve it. So the whole thing strikes me as overkill. Oh well.