Darik's Boot and Nuke

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy 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.

Features

• Product Feature Checklist
• Screenshot

News

• April 2004: DBAN is item 11 on the Maximum PC Do-It-Yourself Guide. (The installer on the FarCry disc is indeed broken, but you can download DBAN here.)
• March 2004: DBAN appears briefly in the TechTV Screen Savers episode How the Department of Energy Stays Secure. DBAN is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration suite of security tools.
• November 2003: Business obligations are taking me out the country until January March 2004 or later. I may not be able to read my e-mail.
• October 2003: Special thanks to Edwin Philips for a hardware donation.
• June 2003: DBAN is now bundled with ArchiCrypt for Microsoft Windows. (Auf Deutsch.)
• May 2003: Version 1 is released.
• December 2002: DBAN is now bundled with Heidi Eraser for Microsoft Windows.

Download

• Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.3 (Floppy version.) (CDR/CDRW version.)
• Darik's Boot and Nuke Beta with SATA Drivers (Floppy version.) (CDR/CDRW version.)

Note:You must run the install program to create the DBAN floppy disk. You cannot create the DBAN floppy disk by copying files to a blank floppy disk.

Please clearly label your DBAN boot media because it is dangerous.

• Release and Beta Information
• Darik's Boot and Nuke FAQ
• Darik's Boot and Nuke Changelog
• Darik's Boot and Nuke Release Notes
• Darik's Public PGP/GPG Key (DC0FCB63)

DBAN contains:

• Erik Andersen's Busybox userland.
• Erik Andersen's uClibc system library.
• The Linux kernel.
• H. Peter Anvin's SysLinux boot loader.

Local component archive.

DBAN is based on Linux, but you need not know anything about unix to use it.

Support

Online Forums

• Heidi Computer Support Forums (General discussion.)
• SourceForge Project Tracker (Bug reports and feature requests.)
• SourceForge Project Page

Errata

• Notwithstanding driver problems, there are no known defects in the dban-1.0.1 or dban-1.0.2 or dban-1.0.3 releases.
• Some 9 gigabyte Seagate and Quantum SCSI disks report more sectors than are actually on the disk. DBAN treats these disks as defective and will abort at the end of the first pass. You can check whether you have one of these disks by booting with a DOS floppy and writing to the last sector with a hex editor. I will need a sample of the hardware to fix this problem.
• The time stamp in the dwipe log file can be behind the hardware clock by one month. (Unreproducable.)

Contact Information

E-Mail: Darik Horn <dajhorn-dban@vanadac.com>
Voice: +1 519-756-4585
Web: www.vanadac.com

All e-mail messages must have "DBAN" somewhere in the subject line. Messages without "DBAN" in the subject line will be blocked by my spam filter. Please attach the DBAN log file, if possible, when sending a bug report.

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