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  2. 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 ...

  3. clear (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    The Unix command clear takes no arguments and is roughly analogous to the command cls on a number of other operating systems. In ISO 9995-7 specifies that the following symbol be used to indicate this function on a keyboard, which is included in Unicode as: ⎚ CLEAR SCREEN SYMBOL. [2] One may use the reset command to erase every previous command.

  4. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    By far, this is the most famous screen of death. Black Screens of Death are used by several systems. One is a failure mode of Windows 3.x. One appears when the bootloader for Windows Vista and later fails. In early Windows 11 previews, the Blue Screen of Death was changed to black. [1]

  5. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    As of Linux 6.10, drm_panic was merged allowing DRM drivers to support drawing a panic screen to inform the user that a panic occurred. This allows a panic screen to appear even when a display server was running when the panic occurred. [15] As of Linux 6.12, drm_panic was extended where the stack trace can be encoded as a QR code. [16]

  6. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    This black screen was simplified compared to the previous blue screen, omitting instructions that the user is recommended to take. [ citation needed ] Windows 10 and later also displays a black screen due to an unfinished update in addition to the aforementioned causes above; in this case, after the system restarts and the user tries to login ...

  7. Chromebook - Wikipedia

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    Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a line of laptops, desktops, tablets and all-in-one computers that run ChromeOS, a proprietary operating system developed by Google. Chromebooks are optimised for web access.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Blue screen errors have existed since the first beta release of Windows 1.0; if Windows found a newer DOS version than it expected, the boot screen would have the text "Incorrect DOS version" alongside other messages detailing what check failed to pass appended into it before starting normally. [4]