5/26/2023 0 Comments Dban dodNwipe is actively maintained with new features being added, unlike DBAN/dwipe. Ditto all the segmentation faults in dwipe, they have been fixed in nwipe.Īs regards new features nwipe has new wipe methods, more options on the command line better logging, disc erasure summary table on completion. In dwipe there is many bugs in the user interface code which caused crashes when terminals were resized when the code was forked. Instead DBAN runs the Mersenne Twister PRNG irrespective of the PRNG option chosen. Just one of those bugs in DBAN that was not discovered until recently, was that while DBAN gives you the option of the ISSAC PRNG, it doesn't actually work!. While nwipe was once the same as DBAN or to be more accurate dwipe, Nwipe has had many changes to it's code and many fixes to bugs that were present in the original dwipe code. I know this is an old thread but I feel it's time it was updated. I don't believe I created a partition of any kind - when Parted Magic booted, I just started nwipe. I'm just wondering how nwipe successfully erases the hard drive without destroying itself in the process. Parted Magic has a graphical interface and I was instructed to remove the boot media after Parted Magic booted completely. This method seems to be working (DoD Short wiping is ongoing), but I just want to make sure that DoD Short on nwipe is just as effective as DoD short on DBAN. ![]() ![]() I actually came across another good suggestion - using the "nwipe" ISO (forked from DBAN's dwipe) included in Parted Magic. Based on my research in this forum, I tried seeing if there was a media cad reader I needed to disable - but I could not find one. It booted from the CD, but I got the "PCI sysfs" error and the program just hung. I was having trouble running DBAN on my Dell notebook (running Vista Home Premium, 64-bit). Newbie here - although I don't believe my question has been answered before.
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