Ahhh….yet another one of those disk wiping utilities. But this is not for the regular user but for mostly IT professionals and bigger IT departments. The reason is that this is a “simple” software which you use to just wipe out the entrie data on an HDD. Yup, it actually works on a bootable floppy disk or a USB thumb drive and all you have to do is to boot from your floppy (or UBM Thumb Drive) and press Enter. It will then proceed to wipe out ALL the data on ALL the available disks on your system. Although it is simple to use, it’s a very powerful software. You can do unlimited wipes and it’s very difficult to recover from it. Good if you are looking to dispose your HDD(s). I think everybody should wipe their HDD clean before they sell or give away their old HDDs. It’s going to be very difficult to recover those information once you have done the wipe. In fact, unless you have a ton of money, it’s next to impossible. If you are worried, just do several passes for the disk wiping.

Anyway, Darik’s Boot and Nuke supports a lot of IDE, SATA, SCSI disks. That would mean that you don’t have to worry about disks (or disk controllers) not being able to be detected when you do the wipe. And Darik’s Boot and Nuke also supports all Windows Partition (like FAT, FAT32 and NTFS) as well as all Linux partitions (like ReiserFS, EXT and UFS).

However, do note that this software wipes the entire disk, it is not like the other software which allows you options to wipe certain areas or only certain partitions. So be very careful when you attempt to use this software. It’s not for the faint hearted. Don’t make this software Darik’s Boot and Puke, okay?