Step 6. Select the drive you want to wipe and press the Space key to confirm.
After that, select which method you want to use and press the Space key to confirm. In the Wipe Method section, press " J" or " K" to scroll up or down and learn about the disk wipe methods. Type M to learn about the disk wiping method. In the next window, you will see all the detected hard drives and several options at bottom. You have many choices, press the displayed function keys to to learn more about DBAN, or directly press Enter to start the disk wiping process. Wait for a while, you will see Dariks Boot and Nuke blue screen. Go to BIOS and set the DBAN bootable USB as the first boot option. To be safe, you need to remove all the device you don’t want to erase. It does not remind you which hard drive to wipe nor prompt you for any confirmations. Go to DBAN official site to download its ISO image files and then burn it to USB. Since Dariks Boot and Nuke only works while wiping hard drive from BIOS, you need to prepare USB so as to create DBAN bootable USB.
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How to use Dariks Boot and Nuke to wipe hard drive It’s basically a self-contained boot disk, just download it ISO image from official site and burn to a supported device. It cannot run when the operating system is in use, so you can only boot from bootable USB or CD/DVD to wipe hard drive. If you don’t select, it will erase all disks on your computer.
It’s designed to delete all data including programs, personal files, recovery partition, and operating system on a selected hard drive. DBAN, also known as Dariks Boot and Nuke, is a free and open-source data removal software, commonly used when you wipe a hard drive for reuse, donate, or selling.
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