Repair Tool of the Week: Dariks Boot and Nuke

by Bryce Whitty

This was recommended by one of our helpful forum members, tkrabec; Dariks Boot and Nuke is a free bootable utility that will completely wipe a hard drive. A simple format will not protect the data left on a hard drive as it can be recovered with some easily available utilities. This program is ideal for people selling second hand computers, those retiring a hard drive or for returning faulty hard drives which had data on it to the manufacturer (thus the sledgehammer method cant be used).

Screenshot:

Dariks Boot & Nuke: Hard Drive Wiper


Downloads:

Download from Official Site – 2.04mb



Bryce Whitty

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Bryce Whitty
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Bryce is an Australian computer technician and the founder of Technibble. He started his computer repair business when he was 17 years old and is still running it 9 years later. He is an avid traveller and spends at least a month of the year in another country.

Comments (1)

  • nate says:

    This program is very usefull as it will wipe as many hard drives at a time as you have IDE ports available. So on most pc’s, if you use the 3 1/2 version (we use the cd bootable) you can do 4 hard drives at the same time.

    July 19, 2007 at 12:07 am

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