Disk Verifier

About Disk Verifier

Disk Verifier is an add-on for Parted Magic’s Secure Erase GUI that is used to aid compliance with NIST 800-88 disk erase verification. The Disk Verifier Live Disk can be used to verify that disks you’ve erased via other means have been erased correctly. Disk Verifier has been downloaded over 1,500 times as of August 2022.

Combined with the Secure Erase feature from Parted Magic (affiliate link - I earn commission for purchases made through this link), this provides an easy and convenient way to securely erase and verify your drives. Disk Verifier also comes in the form of a live bootable disk that can verify any disks attached to the system, as you specify them.

Please note that to help with NIST 800-88 compliance, you have to verify 100% of the disk at the moment, which is the default. As always for this kind of thing, you should read the NIST 800-88 guidelines to make sure you understand what you need to do to comply.

Note that the personal and business editions are identical, and can be used by anyone, except that you get priority email support if you purchase the business edition, whereas otherwise you have to use the support forum. Both editions are valid for an unlimited number of disks.

For more information about Disk Verifier, see the product pages at https://hmbsoftware.dpdcart.com/.

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Checksums and Digital Signatures

The checksums on this page can be used to verify that your file downloaded successfully without corrupting in transit. These can be verified (usually on the command-line) using specific instructions for your operating system as detailed below:

Instructions for Linux (MD5 sums)
Instructions for Linux (SHA256 sums)
Instructions for Mac OS X (both)
Instructions for Windows (MD5 sums)
Instructions for Windows (SHA256 sums)

In each of these cases, you can compare the output of the command to the checksum for the file (in the table, next to each download file).

The digital signatures on this page can be used to verify that your file was created by me, and hasn’t been tampered with, either on the web server, or during transit to your computer. Checking these is more difficult, so I have decided not to include instructions here because they’d have to be very long to do it justice. Instead, please carry out a search on how to verify GPG signatures if you wish to learn how to do it.

It’s a very good idea to verify both the checksum and the signature, but it’s not mandatory.

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