HDDErase EXE ISO UC San Diego Gordon Hughes HDD SSD HIPAA Approved

Application developed by Gordon Hughes at UC San Diego as a fast and secure way to erase HDD and SDD. Developed for the NSA, approved by NIST and complies with HIPAA.

HDDerase.exe is a DOS-based utility that securely erases "sanitizes" all data on ATA hard disk drives in Intel architecture computers (PCs). It offers the option to run the drive internal secure erase command, security erase unit,
based on the ATA specification by the T13 technical committee. To run the utility make a floppy, recordable CD-R, or USB DOS bootable disk; then copy HDDerase.exe to the bootable media. Reboot the computer with the floppy, CD-R, or USB inserted, and type "hdderase" at the system DOS prompt. Make sure to set the correct priority boot order in the system BIOS, such as first boot floppy, CD-R, or USB depending on which media is used to run HDDerase.exe. HDDerase.exe must be run from an actual DOS environment and not a Window based DOS command prompt environment.

Warning: Last release 2008 - no longer supported by UC San Diego but is a mature working version.

Further info: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/secure-erase.html