Darik's Boot and Nuke or DBAN for short was built as a bootable program that may be run from a CD and that can be used to securely erase the hard disk for permanently removing the files saved on it. It will detect and delete the whole hard drive's content in a secure bulk way, files, folders, boot sector and file allocation tables so it is a safe solution for definitive data destruction.
Deleting data in a way that cannot be recovered, DBAN is a useful tool to prevent identity theft or data leak, being appropriate if you want to sell the hard disk or the whole pc or just to make sure that no one will be able to recover the files and documents you want to permanently erase. It is also a good method to safely remove any virus and spyware and to prepare the hard drive for a safe and clean Windows installation. No forensic technique, method or analysis will be able to recover data from a hard drive deleted in this way.
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