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2. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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   Eraser: Heidi Computers Limited GNU GPL v3: Windows: Yes external [7]? HDDerase: University of California, San Diego: Freeware: OS independent, based on DOS: No internal [8]? hdparm: Mark Lord BSD license: Linux: Yes internal [9] not directly supported without scripting nwipe: Martijn van Brummelen GNU GPL v2: Linux: Yes external Yes Parted ...

3. Eraser (software) - Wikipedia

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   Eraser is an open-source [1] secure file erasure tool available for the Windows operating system. [2] [3] [4] [5] It supports both file and volume wiping.[6] [2 ...

4. Evidence Eliminator - Wikipedia

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   [4] [2] Such "cleaner" or "eraser" programs typically overwrite previously allocated disk space, in order to make it more difficult to salvage deleted information. [2] In the absence of such overwrite procedures, information that a user thinks has been deleted may actually remain on the hard drive until that physical space is claimed for ...

5. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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   By accessing the entire hard drive, data erasure eliminates the risk of data remanence. Data erasure can also bypass the Operating System (OS) . Overwriting programs that operate through the OS will not always perform a complete erasure because they cannot modify the contents of the hard drive that are actively in use by that OS.

6. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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   Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN / ˈ d iː b æ n /, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge. [2] The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

7. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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   The utility searches files that are no longer of any use, and enables the user to delete them. The candidates for deletion are categorized as: "Windows Update Cleanup": Copies of Windows updates that are already installed "Microsoft Defender Antivirus": Temporary files that Microsoft Defender Antivirus no longer needs