Open Source Windows Disk Formatting 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.

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.

The FormatUsb tool is a reliable way to format USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks,SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card and SDXC Memory Card SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards.

USB Format Tool - Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions. USB Multi-Boot of Linux ISO + Windows 10 VHD + Win10XPE in BIOS Or UEFI Secure mode.

Disk Image Manager is an application for examining and manipulating disk images in the Standard and Extended DSK format used by many Spectrum, Amstrad PCW and CPC emulators. Many of the features and functions of this tool were driven by the Spectrum Disk Preservation team which used this format and tool to help manage the selection and testing of disk images archived to The World of Spectrum and The TZX Vault. These images are traditionally created with CPDRead under DOS but Simon Owen's mordern SanDisk works great under Windows and provides for much more advanced imaging especially around copy-protected disks.

A simple Windows tool that can format USB or physical volumes to either NTFS or FAT32. It supports custom Volume names and quick formatting. Done out of boredom and curiosity for practicing purposes. The program will refuse to format the Windows partition. Because the Windows partition is not always C, the check is not hard-coded. Rather, I perform a comparison between the currently selected volume to format and the known System volume. If they match, I trip a flag.

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.

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.

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

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/

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

Script (Gui) to format USB devices. The operation is very simple: Detects and displays the connected USB devices and give the desired file format. Supported formats: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS(slow), EXT3 and EXT4 Language support: Spanish, English Packages to download: tar.gz and DEBs Requires the packages: fuse, ntfs-3g and YAD (>= 0.25.1)

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.

Help You to Format a damaged USB/SD card up to F: Drive

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.

A portable FAT file system stack for embedded devices.

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 .

BitRaser for File facilitate you to delete entire data from your computer hard disk forever. Software can remove all web history, application traces, system traces, files and folders including partitions also from Windows based OS. It can permanently delete all sensitive and crucial information and keep you away from any kind of legal consequences.

Xorin is a secure drive erase program that provides the perfect solution to anyone who wants to secure their private data before selling or utilization their PC or drive storage. Xorin is also good in all situations where you want to ensure that deleted data stays deleted and that it can never be recovered. Xorin operates from its own Linux-based bootable environment, Linux or Windows operation system. Xorin supports all popular security methods and standards including DoD 5220.22-M. You can erase your drives unlimited times. In our free version we do not limit quantity of erasing. Also there is no program limitation for parallel drive quantity you want erase.

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.

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.

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.