If you think that it is time to sell or donate your old PC, it is also time to safely erase the entire hard drive so that sensitive data is not recovered with the tools that we all already know.
DBAN it will safely erase all the data on all the hard drives that it finds in the system, including, if you are careless and perform this task with a pendrive, the pendrive itself, so I recommend the use of a CD as a better alternative ...
It has several deletion options, although if we use the autonuke it will be more than enough. The ISO is downloaded from the official link and burned to a CD. You boot from CD and follow the instructions.
Remember autonuke It is the best option in my modest understanding, as it is the most neglected of all and equally safe.
Darik's Boot And Nuke is advised by the Canadian and American authorities as one of the best secure erase methodsMaking irrecoverable any previous information, existing in the HDD.
Depending on the size of the hard drive to erase and the characteristics of the PC, it can take a long time, although since the process is unattended, that should not represent a major inconvenience ...
Darik's Boot And Nuke es Open Source and is available for download from:
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