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2. 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 ...

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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   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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   Disk overwriting programs that cannot access the entire hard drive, including hidden/locked areas like the host protected area (HPA), device configuration overlay (DCO), and remapped sectors, perform an incomplete erasure, leaving some of the data intact. By accessing the entire hard drive, data erasure eliminates the risk of data remanence.

6. Ranish Partition Manager - Wikipedia

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   Ranish Partition Manager is a freeware hard disk partition editor, disk cloning utility, and boot manager, that gives a high level of control for creating multi-boot systems. [1] [2] It is available on the freeware live CD SystemRescueCD and the Ultimate Boot CD (not the Windows version).

7. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   (Windows drive letters do not correspond to partitions in a one-to-one fashion, so there may be more or fewer drive letters than partitions.) Microsoft Windows 2000 , XP , Vista , and Windows 7 include a ' Disk Management ' program which allows for the creation, deletion and resizing of FAT and NTFS partitions.