How to use BBAN - Darik's Bute anf Nuke - Completely format whole hard drive securely

Your hard disk is contains very important and personal documents or information and you don’t want it getting into the wrong hands, but you want to sell your old computer to buyer. Then in this situation you have only one method, format your whole hard drive. Now you think “what the hell, I already know that” but it is recover by any recovery software.

Now question is “how to securely wipe your hard drive – erase your all data completely”. Don’t worry, today many of software presents in internet to securely format your whole hdd (hard disk). One of the most famous and believable software is “DBAN”

DBAN – Darik’s Boot And Nuke :

DBAN is a program that complete format your whole hard disk that cannot be recovered anymore with any software. DBAN generally uses 3 passes to format all data, which is much more secure than normal format.

Things you need for complete format your whole hard disk or hdd

1.    Backup your all important documents to safe place like cd/dvd or portable harddisk or usb

2.    Download DBAN

3.    Burn to a CD

How to use DBAN – Step by Step Process – Easy Tutorial

             1.       Enter your “DBAN CD” to CD/DVD writer

             2.       Press “F8” function key to select boot order. Select boot from CD/DVD

             3.       After few seconds, you can see DBAN terminal with some options like below      

                            

             4.       Press “Enter” key to start DBAN in interactive mode

             5.       Press “Spacebar” key to select your harddrive or hdd

          

               6.       Press “F10” function to start DBAN process or format your harddisk

             7.       Now relax and please wait for DBAN complete all the process 

DBAN tutorial by A Few Lines of Computer Codes - AFLOCC