Recent content by Robbie

I'm not sure where to post this, but thought it would be better here rather than in the DBAN forum itself where it may be overlooked. I've noticed that recently people have been asking support questions for DBAN and haven't had any replies. In the past I've tried to help out where I can but I...

Hi Richard Sorry that you haven't had any response as yet. Can I suggest that you ask your questions over at the official DBAN forum which is http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=208932 I'm going to suggest to the moderators that they lock this particular forum to new posts and...

Good to hear you finally got the hard drive wiped and you can now sell your PC!

have a look at this from the official DBAN support forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? ... _id=208932 The person was trying to find the ISO from the file he had downloaded but in actual fact the downloaded file WAS the ISO. I don't know if that applies to yourself but I know...

each round is a complete wipe of the hard drive so if you quit after 5 rounds you have wiped the hard drive 5 times. All you need to do is run one blanking pass after that, rather than DoD short, which is another three passes. There is an option for the blanking pass in the interactive wipe...

yeah, sorry, I meant 8 rounds of one pass - it overwrites the disk from start to finish and when it has done that it starts all over again and does that for the amount of times selected in the rounds. So for 8 rounds it would perform the whole operation 8 times. After all that it then runs a one...

that sounds far too slow as well. The throughput slows down as the program runs so it sounds like it will slow to a crawl at some point Which DBAN version are you using? The 29 April 2007 beta or the v2.0 pre-release version? If the latter, try the other (29 April 2007) beta version. I...

I would run it in interactive mode if I were you, it's easier to set up the method and number of passes you want to run. That tutorial can also be used then as it's written for interactive mode. I've never used DBAN from the command line so I wouldn't have a clue how to run it like that. I...

I haven't seen the new release of DBAN but assuming it's much the same layout as before the PRNG choice should be on the same screen as all the other methods (eg Dod 3 pass, DoD 7 pass). Choosing that will (I think) take you to another screen to choose the PRNG method (there may be 3 choices...

it will be fine. The Beta (April 29, 2007 beta) never made it as a stable release (from what I can see) because the author decided to concentrate on his commercial version of DBAN and put the DBAN project on the back burner. There is a DBAN 2 pre-release (the one you are referring to), never...

I can't see how DBAN would have caused this but I would suggest that you ask the question again over at the official DBAN forum as the program creator provides support over there: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=208932

try using the beta version released last April http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=61951 It might work better (I used this version on my Toshiba laptop a few weeks ago, version 1.0.7 wouldn't work at all). The other alternative is that the disk might have bad sectors. If...

Re: eraser for win 95 version 5.3 is still available from the original developer of Eraser. It was released about 3 years or so before 5.7, perhaps it may work for you without the patch problem. remember that it is a 7 year old program that you will be attempting to install...

if your computer is 64 bit it says so on that My Computer - Properties - General tab. If it just says (for example) Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition (Year) then it is 32 bit. The 64 bit has Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (Year). An alternative way is to click (works for XP...

it's DBAN that you need, if you want to completely wipe the hard drive (including the operating system and everything else on there, including personal data). You can burn an ISO image to disk but you will need burning software. DBAN available from: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ It...