enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik's_Boot_and_Nuke

   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.

3. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data-erasing_software

   Supported wipe methods Reports BleachBit: Andrew Ziem and contributors GNU General Public License: Windows, Linux: Yes external [1] on screen, Copy and Paste-able CCleaner: Piriform: Trialware: Windows, OS X: Yes external [2]? Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) Darik Horn GNU General Public License: OS independent, based on Linux: No external [3]? dd ...

4. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(computing)

   Since an erase of the cells in the page is needed before it can be written to again, but only entire blocks can be erased, an overwrite will initiate a read-erase-modify-write cycle: [7] [12] the contents of the entire block are stored in cache, then the entire block is erased from the SSD, then the overwritten page(s) is written into the ...

5. Data erasure - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure

   [24] It recommends cryptographic erase as a more general mechanism. According to the University of California, San Diego Center for Magnetic Recording Research's (now its Center for Memory and Recording Research) "Tutorial on Disk Drive Data Sanitization" (p. 8): "Secure erase does a single on-track erasure of the data on the disk drive. The U ...

6. Eraser (software) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser_(software)

   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 ...

7. CCleaner - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner

   The program includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references to application paths. [9] CCleaner 2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive.

8. Games on AOL.com: Free online games, chat with others in real ...

   www.aol.com/games/play/arkadium/word-wipe

   Discover the best free online games at AOL.com - Play board, card, casino, puzzle and many more online games while chatting with others in real-time.

9. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting

   A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...