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In answer to your first question, no there is no single button that will do it all for you. You need to know what you want erased so that you don't erase things you (or Windows) need. The time it takes to erase depends on a few different factors, such as the amount of data that needs to be...

Since you will be booting up with DBAN, why not turn the PC off and unplug the raid drives and the standard IDE drives, then plug the RAID drives in where the standard IDE drives go, leaving the others unplugged. Then when you boot up with DBAN, it will only see the drives you want to wipe.

Since you will be booting up with DBAN, why not turn the PC off and unplug the raid drives and the standard IDE drives, then plug the RAID drives in where the standard IDE drives go, leaving the others unplugged. Then when you boot up with DBAN, it will only see the drives you want to wipe.

Since you just wiped the disk, it is blank and unformatted. Choice #1 says it will format the drive for you, so choose it. If it complains, you may need to partition the disk first using the FDISK program.

After nuking your disk, it is like it came from the store. There are no partitions and no formatting. Fdisk is used to create partitions, which can then be formatted. After this, you can install software. You mention a recovery disk. What kind of recovery disk?

Run it at night and it should be done by morning. This is the least annoying way to wipe a drive. There is no way to tell you exactly how long it will take, because systems vary.

Yes, what you posted shows the whole disk first and then any partitions on the disk. In this case it only shows one partition.

The DOD method will erase data to the point where only someone with a lot of time, money, expertise, and expensive equipment would be able to get bits of the "original" back. I've done disk images after various stages of deleting and erasure and once the files were erased, they didn't exist...

Typically, you will choose the disk or partition that you want to wipe by using the space bar. A disk will have one or more partitions. Selecting a disk will wipe all the partitions on that disk. You can choose to only wipe a partition. A partition is usually the same thing as a drive...

Livegate is shut down, so the privacy link one of you posted doesn't work. I don't know of any option between the slow software overwrite and the total destruction of degaussing (destroys the hard drive magnets, etc). As for the great lengths people go to in attempting data destruction...

An iso is a disk image. Typically, you would start your CD wrtiting program, then look for a menu option for burning a CD from an image, point it at the iso image, and it burns the CD. You would not typically try to open the iso like you would a document, as it isn't meant to be used that way.

The answer is in the main FAQ: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/faq.php I did a Freespace erase and yet I can see see the file names. What's going on? If you erase a whole drive, Eraser will not clean the MFT/FAT. To do that you need to format the drive - think this is what BCwipe does...