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?
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?
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)
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