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I was just reading another post and it said that you cant wipe and external drive with Dban... :( is that true? If so I guess that kinda screws up my plans on wiping... Is there no workaround with dban?

Does this make sense to anyone else but me?

OK I have two hdd's in Raid 0 as my OS drive. I then have a 120GB drive that I store my files on. Then an 80GB external usb drive that I use for backup. I want to wipe ALL of my drives. But I want to keep some of the data on the 120 and 80gb drives. So here is what I was thinking, Wipe my...

using the PRNG stream, with 1 pass (since I cant change how many passes) and 15 Rounds, is that good? is there someway to change the number of passes that I don't know about? Is it better to change the number of passes or rounds?

Ok I think I have most of the info I need, in a couple weeks I'm going to do the wipe... I'm going on vacation for a week, is there a way to specify dban to wipe for a ceritan period of time? Also I'm running dual Intel Xeon Nocona processors - Is that going to be a problem? Will dban play nice?

How do you get rid of this stuff? is there some sort of software program that will do it, or that you can run on these certian types of files?

Alright lets say that I want to erase all 3 of my drives, but there are some files (resume, pictures etc) that I want to keep that scattered about on each of the 3 drives. If I gather the files and copy them to an external hdd. What copies over?, obvisouly the files but any little segments of...

I'm sure its been asked before, but is there a desicription of the wiping methods and which one is "the best" one? I have 2 74GB 10,000RPM Raptors in RAID 0 (has os and programs) and 1 120GB 7200RPM segate hdd (has files etc)