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CNet[edit]

This software is featured on CNet video but I am not sure if this [1] is OK to put in external links. Any opinions? --Kushal^t 19:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like a ref to me. Refs are good.—An Sealgair (talk) 03:41, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New York Times[edit]

Thomas Fitzgerald talks about this software in several of his technology columns, Latest: [2] Shall this go in a Reference section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atomsf (talk • contribs) 06:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Refs are Wikipedia's backbone. Refs are good.—An Sealgair (talk) 03:20, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notability???[edit]

Not sure why this program doesn't meet notability requirements. It's very well-established and simply fantastic. I slick & reload my hard drives every 60 days or so and have used countless programs to '0' them. This one has been, far and away, the most robust, simple, and effective utility I've come across. I'm not trying to sound like a commercial or anything, I'm just a bit bewildered that this may not be 'notable' enough for inclusion in the wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by K10wnsta (talk • contribs) 01:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DBAN is a very prominent program in the area of secure drive wiping and is the best you are ever going to get relatively cheaply (DBAN is freeware). The next stop after this is paying several thousands of dollars per hard drive for professional services that have a 100% guarantee of data erasure. If you are wanting to prevent evidence being recovered for a court case and/or to avoid conviction, it would be worth paying for those services. But for everyone else, for the purpose of donating/recycling/selling hard drives or getting rid of whatever it is you need to get rid of for a non-technical end user to use it afterwards, there's only DBAN, Eraser and other programs with the same capability. If it makes the New York Times, it's notable.—An Sealgair (talk) 06:52, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was article moved, since there are no objections to the proposal. Abecedare (talk) 09:48, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Darik's Boot and Nuke → DBAN — Darik's Boot and Nuke is commonly known as DBAN. Hm2k (talk) 09:51, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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In the case of malware infection?[edit]

Is there a source for this? I can't even theorize how this could be more beneficial than reformatting. --Juventas (talk) 03:08, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well a ref for be good to be able to cite, but this does make sense. Reformatting does not necessarily mean data, including malware, is not still on the disk, just that it is hard to recover. Running DBAN overwrites all data so the malware would be actually gone. - Ahunt (talk) 11:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why would someone try to recover files from a formatted disk when the reason they formatted was to get rid of them? --Juventas (talk) 04:45, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because they realise after the fact that they inadvertently trashed a file they wanted.??

I have removed that. Is not the idea of DBAN and is not sourced. If you have malware Format C:\ or DBAN is the same. Answering to your second question, someone would want to recover files from a formatted disk when they are not the person who formatted the disk. See Computer forensics. --Neo139 (talk) 05:52, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well I have seen cases where someone formatted a disk and then realized that they needed to recover something lost in the format, because they hadn't backed it all up. That said, though, I have no problem with you removing the unsourced text. If someone wants to put it back in then they can find a ref for it. - Ahunt (talk) 12:50, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WTF is Darik?[edit]

It would be good to see (if someone knows or can find out) who Darik is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.210.66.168 (talk) 14:59, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The developer, "Darik Horn", is already named in the infobox - Ahunt (talk) 16:01, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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External link[edit]

With the only external link for DBAN being http://www.dban.org/, which now heavily promotes Blancco Drive Eraser and passive-aggressively negates the value of DBAN, is there not a good case for modifying the external link to DBAN on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/)? Thoughts? - — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.151.158.220 (talk)

I have moved the external link from the article text (as per WP:EL) to the external links section. I think that will cover it. - Ahunt (talk) 14:40, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]