If you are ever going to sell a computer on eBay or give it out to someone when it is no longer of use to you, make sure you format the hard drive completely. Did you know that if you do a simple format, anyone with some computer knowledge can recover most of the data that was previously there?

To avoid such a mishap, I will refer you to Darik’s Boot and Nuke. DBAN is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. Basically, this boot disk will write over the whole hard drive with random numbers making it difficult for anyone to recover the data on it that was previously there.

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