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The log file states the following: " DBAN finished with non-fatal errors. The disks were not properly wiped, or there were verification errors. "

Wait a minute, wait just one minute!! I finally went straight to the DBAN site which mentioned a very interesting point. The darn program will not work if there is a ZIP drive installed. Guess what I have. I unplugged the power to the zip, and PRESTO, this thing worked...I think...

OK, so we all know, I am running XP sp2. I have created a few DBAN floppies and they all load to the point of: "Ok, booting kernal..." So, following your advice, I have now created a cd. It does the same darn thing, only faster. The machine I'm trying to erase the hard drive on is a...

Ok, the instructions say how to create a CD: "Place a floppy (or CD) in your a: drive." Not only is this not physical possibility, but on my laptop with no floppy, the dropdown gives no option for another drive. Any good instructions for creating a DBAN bootable CD?

:( I'll give the CD a shot, but floppy is my primary desire.

I just downloaded the latest version, created a DBAN floppy and popped it into my Pentuim with a whopping 32 meg ram and 40 gb drive. Things seem to go well up to: Uncompression Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Please wait..." I've given this a few hours. The floppy is spinning, but it sure...