Darik's Boot and Nuke

Dariks Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete...

• Discontinued DBAN was last updated in June 2015 and does not support SSDs (SATA Secure Erase). The official website is now pushing users to use Blancco Drive Eraser, a commercial drive wiping tool.

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Permadelete

Permadelete is an easy-to-use and beautiful app for windows that can delete files and folders permanently.

Free Open Source Windows

DiskGenius

DiskGenius, previously PartitionGuru, is a disk recovery and file recovery system to view partitions and to access data across a number of file systems, including NTFS...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

WipeFile

WipeFile erases files and folders secure and fast. WipeFile overwrites the information completely, so there is no way to undelete the files or reconstruct the file...

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.4, released in April 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows

Active@ KillDisk

Active@ Kill Disk is disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery.

Freemium Windows

SDelete

SDelete, short for Secure Delete, is a command-line based data destruction tool and can be run from the Command Prompt in Windows 7, Vista, or XP.

Free Windows

File Shredder

File Shredder is free desktop application for shredding (destroying) unwanted files beyond recovery.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.50, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows

HDShredder

HDShredder by Miray Software deletes entire hard disks, partitions or other storage media securely and according to international standards if desired. Safely recycle...

Freemium Windows

Wiperapp

Software build to meet all needs of companies dealing with erasing data on daily basis. Full accordance with NIST and all major data erasing standards guarantee highest...

Commercial Self-Hosted

EraserDrop

EraserDrop Portable is an easy-to-use secure data removal tool. It is a drop target (a floating icon on your desktop) that you can drop files onto to quickly erase them...

Free Personal Windows PortableApps.com

xShredder

With xShredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann 35 times.

• Discontinued Development focus moved to http://alternativeto.net/software/context-shredder/

Free Open Source Windows

BCWipe

BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. BCWipe embeds itself within Windows and...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Context-Shredder

With Context-Shredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann. Users can create deletion tasks, overwrite...

Free Open Source Windows

wipe

wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media. It compiles under various unix platforms, including Linux 2. * , (Open, Net, Free)BSD, aix 4.1...

Free Open Source Linux

SSuite File Shredder

Do you have the need to destroy and shred your most secretive, sensitive, or private files without a trace?... Now you have the opportunity to erase and clean your...

Free Windows