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DBaN by DJKAL on 03-14-2006 at 07:12 PM
i know that Darik's Bute and Nuke is powerful software and can completely delete EVERYTHING on hard drives.
but i was wondering 2 questions from people who may know more about it or have used it ...
1)
Does it completley delete EVERYTING - un tracable? (even by police for instance as they can race some things) but does this stop that from being able to happen?
and
2)
Does it give you the option to nuke just 1 hard drive or does it automatically nuke them all?
thanks for any help 
RE: DBaN by Supersonicdarky on 03-14-2006 at 07:14 PM
quote:1) should be answered in the faq i think
Originally posted by DJKAL
i know that Darik's Bute and Nuke is powerful software and can completely delete EVERYTHING on hard drives.
but i was wondering 2 questions from people who may know more about it or have used it ...
1)
Does it completley delete EVERYTING - un tracable? (even by police for instance as they can race some things) but does this stop that from being able to happen?
and
2)
Does it give you the option to nuke just 1 hard drive or does it automatically nuke them all?
thanks for any help
2) wipes all detected drives so disconnect the ones you dont want erased
RE: DBaN by Nathan on 03-14-2006 at 07:15 PM
I doubt it'll stop police being able to get little bits which all they need, if they know what thee looking for.
As they leave very small traces such as binarys etc which could even stay there after 100's of formats...
EDIT: Nope it isnt in the fact 
RE: DBaN by absorbation on 03-14-2006 at 07:19 PM
quote:
Originally posted by DJKAL
1)
Does it completley delete EVERYTING - un tracable? (even by police for instance as they can race some things) but does this stop that from being able to happen?
Nothing is untrackable, best way would be buring your harddrive. You see your harddrive just does not contain 0's and 1's and then samples them all together to get what we see but also leaves some data on the surfgace and with some advanced equipment can be trackable.
However, only the police would have tools like this so if your selling your harddrive it should be ok
RE: DBaN by user35870 on 03-14-2006 at 07:19 PM
quote:
Originally posted by DJKAL
Does it completley delete EVERYTING - un tracable? (even by police for instance as they can race some things) but does this stop that from being able to happen?
I'd suggust reading CookieRevised's reply to full erase For that bit.
RE: DBaN by DJKAL on 03-14-2006 at 07:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Absorbation
However, only the police would have tools like this so if your selling your harddrive it should be ok
no im not - just my dad keeps thinking im doing stuff on my Pc 9admitidly there have been a few
videos downloaded - free trials for sites also 
) but he keeps saying he'll take it to the police and get it chekced to see what i have been doing on here 
imnot sure if he can and if he was to ever d o it i would like to have as much info deleted as possable just cos of private conversations, videos iv donwloaded etc
RE: DBaN by absorbation on 03-14-2006 at 07:23 PM
The police would not do it, it would cost way too much and take way too much time. They ever only really care for serious crimes such as pedofilla and huge fraud. 
RE: DBaN by DJKAL on 03-14-2006 at 07:25 PM
thats what i tried to say
but he thinks his "mates" can do it cos they can put a PC together and switch it on (more than my dad can do!)
i was sure i was right and tha A)only police can do it
and B) they wouldnt do it anyway!
but i would still like to remove as much data as possable on my next format anyway which is my other reason of looking into DBaN
RE: DBaN by Ezra on 03-14-2006 at 10:19 PM
There is a mode that will make sure the data is only readable by very advanced hardware and specialists.
And it won't delete everything automatically, it will give you a GUI from where you can choose which Hard Drives/Partitions to delete, which Algorithm it uses to delete everything and how many times it has to run.
RE: DBaN by B3N H4M1D on 03-15-2006 at 08:01 PM
the police could do it but only if you done sumat wrong coz they would send it 2 there specialists but they couldnt jst randomally read it if you havnt - it deleates all C nd D but no other drives... g2g... ring police... tell them u plottin sumat... nah jokes
RE: DBaN by DJKAL on 03-15-2006 at 08:04 PM
quote:hmm problem - because my C: drive since my last format has been called my F: drive
Originally posted by B3N H4M1D
it deleates all C nd D but no other drives..
and my "old" D: drive is now my C: drive - but is not the one that runs windows and is the slave.
was confusing at first as i kept clicking the wrong drive but now im used to it
RE: RE: DBaN by Ezra on 03-15-2006 at 09:23 PM
quote:
Originally posted by B3N H4M1D
the police could do it but only if you done sumat wrong coz they would send it 2 there specialists but they couldnt jst randomally read it if you havnt - it deleates all C nd D but no other drives... g2g... ring police... tell them u plottin sumat... nah jokes
Please write correctly, and what you said is incorrect.
You can erase all your partitions.
The only thing it doesn't list is Removable devices like USB, CD-ROM.
RE: DBaN by NiteMare on 03-16-2006 at 05:14 AM
quote:
Originally posted by DJKAL
quote:
Originally posted by Absorbation
However, only the police would have tools like this so if your selling your harddrive it should be ok
no im not - just my dad keeps thinking im doing stuff on my Pc 9admitidly there have been a few
imnot sure if he can and if he was to ever d o it i would like to have as much info deleted as possable just cos of private conversations, videos iv donwloaded etc
well why don't you just stop doing that stuff, so he doesn't get suspicious
RE: DBaN by zach on 03-16-2006 at 06:13 AM
If you delete everything, he would know you were hiding something 