DBAN not working

ptrichardson

DBAN has been a problem for me in recent years too - if the device has other drives detected by the BIOS, it causes DBAN to fail.

There's lots of other people having this issue too. Solution is to physically remove the other drives (like 7-in-1 card readers etc) - which isn't exactly easy.

I've been looking for a better tool tbh - Blancco exists, but isn't free.

esuhl

Catssquirrel wrote: »

Surprise, Surprise, after another Windows security foul-up with associated junk, may come as a forum shock !!!, reinstalling Windows was off the option list in my case.

What?! You said you installed a Linux distro over the entire disk to "open doors for further OSes".

You don't need to install Linux and then wipe Linux from the disk in order to install other OSes.

Anyway, if you're not reinstalling Windows, and you're only installing Linux to "open doors" for a different OS, what OS are you actually trying to install? FreeBSD? Solaris?

What problem prevented you from installing the OS you wanted in the first place before you tried using Linux to open doors?

GunJack

flopsy1973 wrote: »

yes i get to the command page to run dban after booting up from cd drive and there are 3 options i select automatic and it says loading but nothing rally happens. i respect your comments but why dont i need dban surely it another level of clearing out the computer ??? will the windows disk do what the dban disk do ???
thanks

to re-iterate, you don't need to run DBAN, just reinstall W7....

flopsy1973

can anyone explain why ?

bsod

can you explain where you got the idea that dban was ever necessary, and why after three weeks you are persisting with the false idea that it still is, after being told half a dozen times it isn't.

It's a tool that a tiny percentage of geeks used to overwrite disks before disposal in case a future geeky owner with far too much time on their hands decided to scan the disk for snippets of data that haven't been overwritten. It is not a tool that a geek (who knew what they are doing) would ever consider using to facilitate a windows re-installation

Windows formatting can zero fill disks
You aren't selling it (as far as we know)
You can't get dban to work anyway.

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