Darik's Boot and Nuke

Submitted by Rollie Hawk on Sat, 2006-01-28 13:57.

Looking for a light-weight yet powerful option for completely wiping your hard disk? Darik's Boot and Nuke may be just the solution you are looking for. Packed with an impressive set of features, DBAN is free and open source and supports all drive formats used on Windows- and Unix-based platforms.


Rollie Hawk is a consultant, web publisher, online personality, magazine writer, web developer, network administrator, teacher, husband and father residing in southern Illinois. He graduated in 2002 from Southern Illinois University, earning his BS majoring in math with a minor in chemistry.

Rollie is a certified math teacher with endorsements in chemistry, physics, and physical science and has taught students of all age groups and abilities, ranging from grade school to the university level. In addition to math and science, he has also taught GED, job skills, and alternative high school classes (his personal favorite).

After the birth of his daughter in 2004, Rollie decided to spend more time at home. This meant leaving his teaching position and devoting his working hours exclusively to consulting, web development, and general IT work.