As you can seen in this screen DBAN is informing you of the progress being made.To automatically start DBAN type autonuke, what autonuke does is automatically use DoD Short to erase the contents of the hard drive.Once DBAN starts you will be presented with the following options. Three passes instead of seven will result in quicker results and no possibility of recovery using conventional tools. In order to boot from the CD/DVD, you need to set the BIOS to boot from CD/DVD.įor this How-To I will be using DoD Short since it’s safe and quick on one hard drive.
First you need to download the ISO, which then needs to be burned into a CD/DVD.The process is straight forward and easy to understand. By fast I mean, it wont take 6 hours to complete. You have options when it comes to how many passes PRNG will do.įor the sake of security I went with DoD Short, since its fast and safe from common recovery tools. Uses the PRNG algorithm which is a sequence of numbers that approximates the properties of random numbers. It follows the standard by completing the seven required passes* Gutmann Wipeģ5 passes across the hard drive, named after security expert Peter Gutmann’s who is also responsible for the same* PRNG Total of eight(wipe) passes using a random byte, overwrite sequence changed every time* DoD ShortĭoD 5220.22-M recommends a total of seven passes, instead DoD Short does 3 of the seven passes which results in quicker results* DoD 5220.22-M Writes the hard drive with zeroes in one pass* RCMP TSSIT OPS-II Let’s look at some of the methods offered by DBAN to erase data. Paranoid wipes will take a long time to complete. Please make sure you are using DBAN on the intended hard drive, you cannot reverse the process.ĭBAN supports multiple ways of erasing data from a hard drive ranging from quick to paranoid. DBAN can boot from a floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive.įormatting a hard drive is not the same as using DBAN, formated data can still be recovered with minimal effort. DBAN is both trusted by government agencies and easy to use. No!, we are not going to blow up a hard drive, but instead render any data in it un-recoverable by using a free and open source utility called DBAN.
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