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

• 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 1.0.1 (Floppy version.) (CDR/CDRW version.)
• Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.2 (Floppy version.) (CDR/CDRW version.)
• Darik's Boot and Nuke Beta 2004022400 (Floppy version.) (CDR/CDRW version.)
  This beta is Release Candidate 1 of the 1.0.3 release.

Note: The dban-1.0.2 release is incompatible with computers that have read/write ATAPI devices, like Iomega Zip Drives, and is primarily intended for people that were having driver problems with the dban-1.0.1 release. If dban-1.0.1 works for you, then continue to use it. Check the changelog for information about the new drivers. These releases have identical wipe code.

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 release.
• Some 9 gigabyte Seagate and Quantum SCSI disks seem to have the odd-last-sector problem. DBAN will abort at the end of the first pass on these disks. You can check whether you have one of these disks by booting with a DOS floppy and writing the last sector with a hex editor. I will need a sample of the hardware to fix this problem.

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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