Darik's Boot and Nuke

DBAN is an excellent wipe program. It features many options and is very solid (as software goes). I have only ever had one issue with DBAN and it turned out to NOT be DBAN but the disc itself. I highly recommend it. My only complaint is that it takes a bit of time to load and start to execture.

Nwipe/ShredOS is the maintained version of DBAN and fixes many of the bugs and security issues with DBAN. DBAN does not recognise modern devices, it's implementation of Isaac is a huge security risk, DBAN can actually write uninitialised memory to the disc you are supposedly wiping if you select Isaac as a command line option! If you like DBAN you really want to check out ShredOS x86_64. 32 bit also available. GitHub(dot)com/partialVolume . Nwipe is also available in most Linux distros and is available as usb or .iso images to create a USB or CD/DVD bootable advanced version of DBAN. ShredOS/nwipe supports more wipe methods, prngs that work properly and drive temperature monitoring, plus UEFI and bios bootable, better logging, wipe and error summary tables. ShredOS can wipe headless systems via the network and export logs on your LAN via lftp and still remain easy to use if you don't need those features. You can create customised USB bootable devices if you want nwipe to always run using a specific method or even create a bootable autonuke stick.

It's a amazing project, tried it first time back in 2011 . Fully functional and great and easy to use , only one thing i hope it updates much frequently last update was in 2015 which a lot have change since then .

Fantastic. Needed to clean lousy 2014 Lenovo Windows laptop that could barely function. Used RUFUS on another system to create USB bootable key drive of the DBAN iso. Booted it and ran "autonuke" to clean the laptop prior to recycling.

I've been using this for years, it works flawlessly and I know when it's complete everything is gone!