Darik's Boot and Nuke Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Darik's Boot and Nuke for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is ABAN, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Darik's Boot and Nuke and eight of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Darik's Boot and Nuke are BCWipe, BitRaser File Eraser, Shredos and nwipe.

Darik's Boot and Nuke

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

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ABAN
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Free • Open Source
File Shredder
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4 ABAN alternatives
ABAN is a boot CD/USB stick for easily and securely wiping all the disks in a machine. Boot disks are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. As a boot disk, it doesn't care what OS is on the machine (or if there is any OS at all).
- - ABAN is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Darik's Boot and Nuke.
- - ABAN is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Darik's Boot and Nuke.
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Comments about ABAN as a Alternative to Darik's Boot and Nuke
Almost everyone thinks ABAN is a great Darik's Boot and Nuke alternative.
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free, standalone bootable tool, no additional os required
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Standalone tool for full disk wiping. Since it does not have fancy graphical UI, not recommended for newbies.
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BCWipe
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Paid • Proprietary
File Shredder
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39 BCWipe alternatives
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 can be activated from the Explorer FILE Menu OR from the context (right-click) menu OR from BCWipe Task...
- - BCWipe is the most popular commercial alternative to Darik's Boot and Nuke.
BCWipe has no features, suggest some!
BitRaser File Eraser
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Paid • Proprietary
File Shredder
Mac
Windows
39 BitRaser File Eraser alternatives
BitRaser File Eraser is a DIY software for permanent wiping of sensitive files, web browsing history, app & system traces, and unused space on the laptop, desktop, and external storage media. The tool safeguards your personal data from falling into the wrong hands.
BitRaser File Eraser has no features, suggest some!
Shredos
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
4 Shredos alternatives
Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe.
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nwipe
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
4 nwipe alternatives
nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host distribution, thus giving better hardware support.
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ErAce
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
38 ErAce alternatives
ErAce is software that will over write the hard drive 1-100 times. So it fullfills the strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data.
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1. PortableErAce can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The official website is no longer accessible and the SourceForge project page no longer contains any downloads. The ISO files are downloadable here: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/temp/sf2015/e/er/erace/
iShred Express
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Free • Proprietary
File Shredder
Mac
35 iShred Express alternatives
iShred Express provides a drag and drop interface to the "SRM" or secure delete function.
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Discontinued
Official website/app unavailable.
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Permanent Eraser
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Free • Open Source
File Shredder
Mac
36 Permanent Eraser alternatives
When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with Mac OS 10.
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Permanent Eraser Features
Apps with Finder Integration
Comments about Permanent Eraser as a Alternative to Darik's Boot and Nuke
Some users think Permanent Eraser is a great Darik's Boot and Nuke alternative, some don't.
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it is not a standalone bootable tool, it requires an OS to run
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Doesn't Wipe Drives Securely and requires an installed OS. DBAN is OS independent boot utility, and thus its name.
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It deletes any file including ones from the trash. Even files that the OS is identifying as in use (when they are not) are wiped entirely with this software. The only reason I refrained from voting it as the best DBan alternative is that I don't know how it will behave with extremely large files, example, a full external Terabyte sized hard drive.
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