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

Active@ KillDisk

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

Freemium Windows

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

Disk Wipe

Disk Wipe is Free, portable Windows application for permanent volume data destruction. With Disk Wipe you can erase all disk data and prevent recovery of those data....

Free Windows

BitRaser

BitRaser is a plug and play software that permanently erases data beyond the scope of data recovery. It supports 27 international erasure standards and performs erasure...

Commercial $ $ $ Windows Self-Hosted

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

ErAce

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...

• 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/

Free Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted

Puran Wipe Disk

Puran Wipe Disk is a free utility that can completely delete everything on your disk including the file system so that no data can be recovered or it can just wipe the...

• Discontinued Latest version 1.2 was released on 07 September 2013. See: http://www.puransoftware.com/Wipe-Disk.html

Free Personal Windows

Blancco Drive Eraser

Blancco Drive Eraser is patented secure data erasure for HDDs and SSDs. Digitally signed certificate of erase for auditing. Free evaluation license.

Commercial Windows