The /P parameter still allows you to specify the number of passes, but now instead of just overwriting the sectors on a disk with 0's, additional passes overwrite sectors with random numbers. Via the Windows CMD prompt the Format command's /P parameter can be used (in Windows 8 and 10). This will take longer than a simple 'Empty Recycle Bin'. To securely 'delete' a file involves overwriting the file several times. DBAN wipes multiple drives in parallel, but doing it in a VM allows for the computer to continue being used instead of being tied up for days, and it also ensures DBAN can only see the drives you want to wipe, so it helps prevent mistakes.On a Windows machines, a simple 'Empty Recycle Bin' will only erase the index to a file, not the file itself, thus exposing you to some risk if the file contained sensitive information, such as SSN, or anything you'd rather someone else could never see. What I ended up doing is setting up a VM with DBAN and assigning the drives I wanted to wipe to the VM. To anyone looking to do multiple drives that happens to read this: as I said, I tried several programs, and none of them will do it except one, which you have to buy. To the devs, in case you read this: don't use a forum for support then not let people post in it (shouldn't need to be said, but there it is).

I signed up on the forum to inquire about it, but then couldn't post, so that was a massive waste of time. I see no good reason why that shouldn't be possible, and searching the forums it seemed the dev intended to add it in v6, but that was years ago and it's now on v6.2. being able to wipe multiple drives simultaneously. The only thing I don't like about it is the lack of parallelization, i.e. Of them, one or two would probably be suitable replacements for this one if it were to stop working, but I would say Eraser is probably the best interface and it's free, portable, and can do files, free space, and entire drives.

I tried several others, and they ranged from horrible to ok. As some others have mentioned (complained about), it does take a long time, but that's just the nature of what it's doing, and all programs are going to be slow if they're not, they're not doing a good job. It did randomly quit the other day in the middle of a job, which I luckily checked on it and noticed, though I'm not sure if that was Eraser's or Windows' fault. Decent program that does the job with minimal fuss.

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