Top 15 Darik's Boot and Nuke Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Dariks Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.

1. WipeDisk

WipeDisk WipeDisk erases physical and logical disks (complete harddisks or single partition) secure and fast.WipeDisk overwrites the information sector-wise, from the first sector of the disk to the last one. This is particularly important for forensically correct deletion of data.WipeDisk supports 14 different wipe methods, e.g. two US Navy standards, the......

2. Disk Wipe

Disk Wipe Disk Wipe is Free, portable Windows application for permanent volume data destruction. With Disk Wipe you can erase all disk data and prevent recovery of those data. Formatting a hard drive with regular method leaves an open possibility to recover the data back. Many companies and users who just dumped......

3. Blancco Drive Eraser

Blancco Drive Eraser Blancco Drive Eraser is patented secure data erasure for HDDs and SSDs. Digitally signed certificate of erase for auditing. Free evaluation license.......

4. HDShredder

HDShredder HDShredder deletes the contents of hard disks and other mass storage media reliably at the physical level. HDShredder can also be applied to individual partitions and the user can select to perform the deletion according to international security standards. HDShredder works independent of partition layout, file sys­tem and operating system.......

5. Active@ KillDisk

Active@ KillDisk Active@ Kill Disk is disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery.......

6. Redo Backup and Recovery

Redo Backup and Recovery Open-Source drive imaging solution coming as Linux-based Live CD (or USB thumb drive) that allows for backup and recovery of partitions or entire hard-drives and computers (both Linux and Windows). The solution provides a beginner-friendly and easy to use graphical user interface, automatically finds network shares, includes the web browser......

7. ErAce

ErAce ISO files: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/temp/sf2015/e/er/erace/ ErAce is software that will over write hard drive 1-100 times. So it fullfills strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data. If you delete files and empty the recycle bin it is possible to recover data with recovery......

8. BCWipe

BCWipe BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. BCWipe embeds itself within Windows and can be activated from the Explorer FILE Menu OR from the context (right-click) menu OR from BCWipe Task Manager OR from a command-line prompt.......

9. HDD Wipe Tool

HDD Wipe Tool HDD Wipe Tool is a freeware utility for low-level hard disk drive erasing.Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, USB, FIREWIRE. Big drives (LBA-48) are supported. Supported Manufacturers: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Western Digital. The program also supports low-level erasing of FLASH cards using a card-reader.This......

10. EraserDrop

EraserDrop EraserDrop Portable is an easy-to-use secure data removal tool. It is a drop target (a floating icon on your desktop) that you can drop files onto to quickly erase them so they can not be recovered. EraserDrop does away with the standard Eraser Portable interface and is packaged......

11. xShredder

xShredder With xShredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann 35 times.......

12. Avira AntiVir Rescue System

Avira AntiVir Rescue System The Avira AntiVir Rescue System a linux-based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible to repair a damaged system, to rescue data or to scan the system for virus infections. Just double-click on the rescue system package to burn it to a CD/DVD.......

13. WipeFile

WipeFile WipeFile erases files and folders secure and fast. WipeFile overwrites the information completely, so there is no way to undelete the files or reconstruct the file content.......

14. wipe

wipe wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media. It compiles under various unix platforms, including Linux 2. * , (Open, Net, Free)BSD, aix 4.1, SunOS 5.5.1, Solaris 2.6. wipe is released under the GPL. Pre-compiled packages are available on most Linux distributions. Under Debian, the package......

15. Anvi Rescue Disk

Anvi Rescue Disk Anvi Rescue Disk was designed to be used when standard antivirus software fail to detect and clean various computer infections, especially boot-sector viruses like ransomware. The Anvi Rescue ISO image, Rescue.iso, can be burned on a CD/DVD or a bootable USB device using your disc burner to launch the infected......