Truncat wrote:
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> The answer can only be partial, I have tried PGP Wiper, Steganos
> Wiper, and Paragon, without doubt I prefer Paragon Disk Wipe the
> reason being is the number of choices it gives you are overwhelming,

Who cares, if it doesn't do its job right?

> and the only wiping software I know of that can delete a whole OS
> booting from a CD-Rom.

Lol? I can even do this from the running system with 'dd' under Windows,
but surely almost any Linux/BSD Live CD does the job as well.

I heard DBAN is good too but havent tested it.

> Neither PGP Wiper, Steganos or Paragon are free, DBAN is.

And apples are no bananas. DBAN is supposed to overwrite entire
partitions and harddisks, but not single files - and isn't suitable for
the latter either.