![]() Now on the laptop I checked that the bios was set to boot from a cd first. ![]() CDBurnerXP is an excellent alternative for instance.ģ. There are many free packages that can burn an iso image for you if your not using Windows 7. Simply placing a blank 700mb cd (the image is only roughly 5mbytes though) in the drive and right clicking on the iso image called dban-beta.2006042900_i386.iso and selecting ‘burn disc image’. I did this via Windows 7’s own image burn option. I downloaded the ‘iso’ image from the website. Then shipping the little parts to opposite parts of the world, with clues… sorry where was I?ġ. I make no guarantees that your data isn’t recoverable, but come on now, DoD wiping is pretty good and if your that paranoid perhaps you should consider safely destroying the hard drive. So what is Darik’s Boot and Nuke? Basically it’s a well put together small linux os with a nifty application to do the hard work and perform DoD standard wipes. ![]() ![]() No something to make it tougher to recover files was required. Simply deleting files not the option, neither a quick format. I’m about to place a laptop on ebay and wanted to wipe a hard drive. I was asked recently about wiping hard drives and as I needed to wipe one, I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to write a blog article. ![]()
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