In this review of DBAN I mention that it's not the most user friendly product, but if you give it a couple stabs more often than not you'll succeed. Keep in mind DBAN is open source and free. Commercial products often come with support where as open source, not so much. Now on to the DBAN review. Darik's boot and nuke is Free Software one can use to boot and nuke your HDD (hard … [Read more...]
Preparing Your Computer for Sell or Donation
Related: You may also want to read my analysis of DBAN. According to Gartner Dataquest statistics, in April 2002 the billionth PC (personal computer) was shipped. The second billion mark was supposedly reached in 2007. That's about 1 billion computers in 5 years and I'm sure, with the price of the computer dropping, the number increases every single year. According to … [Read more...]