PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR DATA YOU WANT BEFORE FOLLWING THIS TUTORIAL ON HOW TO ERASE HARD DRIVE’S How To Erase Hard Drive Using Darik Boot And Nuke (DBAN) Please note that DBAN is capable of wiping any hard drive partition / data for Windows, Mac or Linux it does not matter what file system (EXT3, NTFS, FAT, HFS) DBAN will be able to destroy the data contained on the device.
The following tutorial walks you through how to erase hard drive (s) using Darik’s Boot And Nuke a bootable Linux distribution built with the sole purpose of deleting data from hard drives & partitions. DBAN (Darik’s Boot and Nuke) will completely wipe your hard drive by writing over it multiple times to ensure your hard drive is erased (Arnie Style!).
