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  2. 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 ...

  3. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Since an erase of the cells in the page is needed before it can be written to again, but only entire blocks can be erased, an overwrite will initiate a read-erase-modify-write cycle: [7] [12] the contents of the entire block are stored in cache, then the entire block is erased from the SSD, then the overwritten page(s) is written into the ...

  4. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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    The Gutmann method, Quick Erase, DoD Short (3 passes), and DOD 5220.22-M (7 passes) are also included as options to handle data remanence. DBAN can be booted from a CD, DVD, USB flash drive or diskless using a Preboot Execution Environment. It is based on Linux and supports PATA (IDE), SCSI and SATA hard drives. DBAN can be configured to ...

  5. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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    [24] It recommends cryptographic erase as a more general mechanism. According to the University of California, San Diego Center for Magnetic Recording Research's (now its Center for Memory and Recording Research) "Tutorial on Disk Drive Data Sanitization" (p. 8): "Secure erase does a single on-track erasure of the data on the disk drive. The U ...

  6. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...

  7. Gutmann method - Wikipedia

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    The Gutmann method is an algorithm for securely erasing the contents of computer hard disk drives, such as files.Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb and presented in the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory in July 1996, it involved writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.

  8. Eraser (software) - Wikipedia

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    Eraser is an open-source [1] secure file erasure tool available for the Windows operating system. [2] [3] [4] [5] It supports both file and volume wiping.[6] [2 ...

  9. Factory reset - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft's Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11, and Apple's macOS have options for this. [citation needed] On Android devices, there is a factory data reset [4] option in Settings that will appear to erase all of the device's data and reset all of its settings. This method is typically used when the device has a technical problem that cannot ...