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  2. Disk Utility - Wikipedia

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    Another application called Drive Setup was used for drive formatting and partitioning and the application Disk Copy was used for working with disk images. [citation needed] Before Mac OS X Panther, the functionality of Disk Utility was spread across two applications: Disk Copy and Disk Utility. Disk Copy was used for creating and mounting disk ...

  3. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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    Supported wipe methods Reports BleachBit: Andrew Ziem and contributors GNU General Public License: Windows, Linux: Yes external [1] on screen, Copy and Paste-able CCleaner: Piriform: Trialware: Windows, OS X: Yes external [2]? Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) Darik Horn GNU General Public License: OS independent, based on Linux: No external [3]? dd ...

  4. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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    Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN / ˈ d iː b æ n /, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge. [2] The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

  5. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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    Overwriting programs that operate through the OS will not always perform a complete erasure because they cannot modify the contents of the hard drive that are actively in use by that OS. Because of this, many data erasure programs are provided in a bootable format, where you run off a live CD that has all of the necessary software to erase the ...

  6. Boot Camp (software) - Wikipedia

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    The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ or APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive or solid-state drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the default boot ...

  7. HDDerase - Wikipedia

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    HDDerase is a freeware utility that securely erases data on hard drives using the Secure Erase unit command built into the firmware of Parallel ATA and Serial ATA drives manufactured after 2001. [1] HDDerase was developed by the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. HDDerase is designed for command ...

  8. Data recovery - Wikipedia

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    When a hard disk drive fails, the importance of getting the data off the drive is the top priority. The longer a faulty drive is used, the more likely further data loss is to occur. Creating an image of the drive will ensure that there is a secondary copy of the data on another device, on which it is safe to perform testing and recovery ...

  9. List of built-in macOS apps - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of built-in apps and system components developed by Apple Inc. for macOS that come bundled by default or are installed through a system update. Many of the default programs found on macOS have counterparts on Apple's other operating systems, most often on iOS and iPadOS.