Some DBAN Questions

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EnderW

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This morning I tried to use DBAN to erase some of my disks and ran into a few, strange problems.


1) Could not boot from CD while SATA devices were set to AHCI in BIOS, is this to be expected? My DVD drive is connected via SATA, but I booted from a Memtest CD, no problems.

2) Could not boot from USB drive, kept getting error 15 or "NVRAM not found" or something like that. Never got this working.

3) Once I was able to boot from CD, I ran into another issue, only 1 of the 2 hard drives I had connected were showing up. I knew both of them were working because I had just copied all the data from them. So I turned the machine off and disconnected the drive that did show up. Went back to DBAN and it says something like "finished on all drives without non-fatal errors - this is usually from disks with bad sectors". So I load up WD Utilities Disk and do a 0 fill on the drive with it and run an extended test. Everything works great. So is the drive bad or not? It's been working fine. Is there another program I could use to test it?

Also, what's a good alternative to DBAN that can be ran from within Windows?
 
As far as I know, HD Tune Pro 3.0 and Acronis True Image Home feature disk wiping tools using Zero-Fill, Gutmann, or DoD 5015.2 standard wiping methods. There are probably other alternatives for free software out there, as well. As long as the disk you're using isn't the OS disk (obviously! :p) then you should have no problem doing it within Windows.
 
iBP_James said:
As far as I know, HD Tune Pro 3.0 and Acronis True Image Home feature disk wiping tools using Zero-Fill, Gutmann, or DoD 5015.2 standard wiping methods. There are probably other alternatives for free software out there, as well. As long as the disk you're using isn't the OS disk (obviously! :p) then you should have no problem doing it within Windows.
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I didn't think about Acronis - already have it installed because I was using it to clone the drives.
Thanks :)
 
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