Open Source Windows Data Wipe Software

Eraser is a secure data removal tool for Windows. It completely removes sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot image that securely wipes hard disk drives (HDDs). DBAN is appropriate for personal use, bulk data destruction, or emergency data destruction for HDDs, but is not recommended for solid-state drives (SSDs), sanitization that requires auditable compliance documentation, or technical support.

For all Intel and compatible 64 & 32 bit processors. ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing the entire contents of your disks using the program nwipe. If you are familiar with dwipe from DBAN then you will feel right at home with ShredOS and nwipe. What are the advantages of nwipe over dwipe/DBAN? Well as everybody probably knows, DBAN development stopped in 2015 which means it has not received any further bug fixes or support for new hardware since that date. Nwipe originally was a fork of dwipe but has continued to have improvements and bug fixes and is now available in many Linux distros. ShredOS hopefully will always provide the latest nwipe on a up to date Linux kernel so it will support modern hardware.

BleachBit frees disk space and maintains privacy. Cleans cache, Internet history, temporary files, logs, cookies, Firefox, Google Chrome, Flash, Windows, Linux, and more. Downloads are at www.bleachbit.org and source code is at GitHub.

nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host distribution, thus giving better hardware support. nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of disks. It can wipe a single drive or multiple disks simultaneously. It can operate as both a command line tool without a GUI or with a ncurses GUI.

Simple program intended to delete and remove stubborn directories and files that cannot be removed by other means either because the path is too long, the name is invalid, or any of other errors that can be incurred upon file or directory deletion. For a lightweight, no installation necessary version of FilExile, try FilExile Portable! https://sourceforge.net/projects/filexileport.filexile.p/

BitKiller securely shreds files and directories, removing them completely from your hard disk. It can quickly and efficiently overwrite files using anything from random data to the Gutmann method. It also changes filenames to make them harder to find. No setup or installation needed.

IMPORTANT!!! Since this is new software, your web browser, operating system or even possibly antivirus software may report security alerts against this tool. Please ignore that messages until this tool gets widely spread. This program is highly inspired by Win32 Disk Imager and sort of copies it's function. However, I've added some features, like verification of readed/writed image file and the most important is on the fly support for zipped images. Another features worth mentioning are simultaneous write to multiple devices at one time or wiping of device filesystem and partitions. I would be happy to hear your feedback and I'm ready to listen to your suggestions. Feel free to request new features, if I found them interesting I will definitely implement them. Requires .NET Framework 4.6.1 (download here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=671729 ) Supports Windows 7 and newer. If you need older Windows support, use Win32 Disk Imager. Please write a review.

Conveniently format, dismount, choose a new allocation unit size or a new file system for your disks and partitions using this simple tool SuperDiskFormatter was reviewed by Alexandra Sava (4.5/5) Not only does Windows come with built-in utilities to make the formatting of external drives fairly easy, but the process itself is quite straightforward. Then again, given the plethora of manufacturers, interfaces and various compatibility aspects, sometimes you may need to rely on specialized tools to format drives and partitions. SuperDiskFormatter is a lightweight tool that provides a simple way to format disks, change the file system, force dismount partitions and change the new volume label.

FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. FOG can be used to image Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Window 8 PCs using PXE, PartClone, and a Web GUI to tie it together. Includes featues like memory and disk test, disk wipe, av scan & task scheduling.

Naraeon Secure Erase is Secure Erase environment for SATA/NVMe SSDs. Using NVIDIA VGAs and having trouble? see https://www.naraeon.net/en/other-naraeon-products/latest-naraeon-secure-erase/

A secure disk wipe tool based on VeraCrypt encryption engine. Release archives are signed using PGP key with fingerprint 607E5A7AD030D38E5E5C2CA502C30AE90FAE4A6F belonging to Mounir IDRASSI and which can be found on major key servers (e.g.. https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/607E5A7AD030D38E5E5C2CA502C30AE90FAE4A6F).

With Context-Shredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann 35 times. Eraser -Tool for Windows. An user can create deletion tasks, overwrite the available free space or destroy disk drives with the help of this handy tool. The included Portable -[Context-Shredder] allows the user to navigate and view all the files found on the system. You need the .Net Framework 4.0 from Microsoft.

File Wiper .NET is a program intended to safely destroy the content of files. This destructive job is done by overwriting the content of a given file before deleting it. To overwrite the file content a user can choose one of the predefined wiping algorithms. Further, after wiping the file content the name of a file is also overwritten using a special wiping algorithm.

Automated network based hard disk drives / storage devices erasure is server based software which installs on a central server. Server is connected to network switches and several PXE boot enabled workstations are attached to the network. As soon as the workstation is powered on, it boots off the network via the server and begins wiping all the attached hard disk drives. Once all the hard drives are wiped, data related to each hard disk is stored in the central server’s database. Read WIKI Automated unattended network based data erasure wiping Comprehensive Reporting Web GUI reporting Generates certificate of data erasure Barcodes Labels Graphs Pie / Bar / Line Charts Hard Disks bad sectors & health reporting Hard Disk SMART Data collection Database Driven Distributed System Hard Disk Drives health reports Part Open Source * Friendly GUI Graphical User Interface Mass Hard Disk Drive Destruction Data Wiping HDD Data Eraser Storage Array Data Wipe

WipeOut is secure data deletion method & application. WipeOut method is designed to be fast and secure. WipeOut also has many sub schemes for faster (but not weak) wipe process .

SimpleDriveWiper is a very simple command line tool that allows you to wipe the free space of a drive/partition. Its purpose is to obfuscate the residual of data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove it. For Windows,Linux and Mac.

Tailor your corruption to perfection with this versatile corruptor. With countless customization options, you have complete control over how the corruptor operates, allowing you to achieve the perfect level of corruption every time. Corruption Engine List: Nightmare Engine Merge Engine Logic Engine Lerp Engine Manual Engine

BooTium is a software that has been designed so that users can flash or backup a disk very easily and quickly. Because indeed BooTium is the fastest flashing image in the world! BooTium contains everything you need to flash an image or make an image backup easily. You will find multiple tools to carry out your use of BooTium, such as an advanced disk formatter.

ExFormatter is a drive formatter that allows you to do a complete and fast formatting, with advanced formatting tools.

Delete files one by one via DOS. Starting at the root of the C drive, this program deletes files one by one, eventually deleting windows.

ShredBitz is a free and simple file shredder tool that can wipe selected files from any hard disk drive. ShredBitz is written in the java programming language and uses a custom written algorithm for shredding. ShredBitz is a very powerful tool.

I'm just a student beginning to learn C++. I created this very simple 70 line program that will generate a text file with your choice of extension however may bytes you enter. I believe this could be used to permanently wipe hard drives if reused multiple times. Or just use up a shit-ton of hard drive space on a computer if you choose to do so. I called it "Big 0" because it can generate a big file full of zeros.

A portable FAT file system stack for embedded devices.

This frontend makes it easier (and probably more safe) to use the Windows version of dd (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd) program. User can: * Select the disk device (a partition or a root one) * Put a binary image onto the device * Save a binary image of the selected device to a file * Erase the selected device (fill it with zeroes) Suitable for: * Create a bootable USB disks from an ISO images * Backup disks * Make an ISO image from CD disk * Erase corrupted MBR's which Windows can not handle USE WITH CAUTION - it is a very beta version. Note that the app is writen in JAVA, so you need the JRE installed.