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--- darik_boot_nuke_disk_wipe [2023/06/01 15:43] – [Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) For Disk Wiping] wikiadmin
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 To securely erase a disk involves overwriting all disk sectors multiple times with anonymizing data, such as writing zeros to all sectors on the first pass through the entire disk, then writing all ones on the second pass, and writing randomly zeros and ones on a third pass (or overwriting with other secure sanitizing sequences, such as 7 passes rather than 3).
-DBAN is its own boot environment (no need to install it on an existing operating system) so you can use it to securely erase the boot drive or other data drive on a computer without first removing that drive and installing or attaching it to another PC. Caution! Be extremely careful when using DBAN so that you don't accidentally wipe the wrong drive.
+DBAN has its own boot environment (no need to install it on an existing operating system) so you can use it to securely erase the boot drive or other data drive on a computer without first removing that drive and installing or attaching it to another PC. Caution! Be extremely careful when using DBAN so that you don't accidentally wipe the wrong drive.
 ==== Instructions ====
-  - Download the DBAN *.ISO file.
+  - Download the DBAN *.ISO file here: [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/]]
-  - Write the ISO file to either a USB Flash drive, CD or DVD so that it becomes bootable (DBAN only requires approximately 20MB of disk space).
+  - Write the ISO file to either a USB Flash drive, CD or DVD so that it becomes bootable (DBAN only requires approximately 20MB of disk space).  See the discussion above about using Rufus or BurnAwareFree to write the DBAN ISO file to your preferred boot medium.
-  - Boot from the DBAN USB, CD or DVD drive. DBAN loads a menu having a blue background.
+  - Boot from the DBAN USB, DBAN CD or DBAN DVD drive. DBAN loads a menu having a blue background.
   - Press the "Enter" key to start DBAN's interactive mode. DBAN will search for and detect your drives. Another menu will appear on screen which shows all of your drives and various options.
   - Select the drive(s) you wish to wipe. Use {up-arrow} or {down-arrow} keys to move up and down the list of drives (or you can use the J and K keys to move up and down) and then press the spacebar to select the drive or multiple drives that you wish to secure erase.  Each drive that you select with the spacebar will now show "wipe" next to it. You can toggle the spacebar to de-select a drive mistakenly selected.