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Remove both the main battery and the cmos battery (that looks like a large round watch battery) and run the wipe from outlet power. If this works, then replace the cmos battery.

This is adequate. I recommend using the default method of the latest DBAN release, which is currently one round of the DoD short method.

Yes. The defaults are safe. Don't change it unless you understand it.

Yes. No, the number of passes is part of the method.

Try these if you have an Intel motherboard: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=1666&lang=eng http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=182&lang=eng Past that, google for the BIOS serial number that will...

You must push F6 early during the installation and provide a disk with SATA and/or RAID drivers for this hardware. Determine the motherboard model and get appropriate driver files from the vendor website. If this computer does not have a floppy drive, then you must "slipstream" them into...

No, you must save and check the log. The most common problem is a DMA fault. SMART reporting is planned. Product enhancements happen faster when the work is sponsored.

You can do it with Mac OS X from a terminal window like this: # unzip dban-1.0.6_i386.exe # dd if=dban-1.0.6_i386.IMA of=/dev/diskX bs=1k If you do not have the `unzip` program available at the terminal prompt, then use any other program from the GUI. The EXE file is just a regular...

This is a warez distribution, and my scanner zapped it. YMMV, but you've probably been owned.

Both copies of the MFT are likely hosed if you had an NTFS filesystem. I cannot find a tool for Microsoft Windows that can scrape files off a disk without an MFT. If this happened to me, then I would visit http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ and investigate the inode dumping code. Past that, a...

The log says that the computer has a klamath cpu with a speed and stepping that was never fabbed by Intel. The disk is also reporting ATA capabilites that the DeskStar 60GXP does not have, IIRC. My intuition is that this report is bogus, but your computer might be an engineering sample of some...

Send the log file to me.

No. Likely no.

The dban-1.0.6 release does not have a driver for the LSI MPT device in the Dell PowerEdge 1850, but it should not hang. The Intel Xeons with EMT64 are a bit flakey, so if you have time, then upgrade the BIOS and try DBAN again. The current beta for dban-1.0.7, which has not been posted, has...

This page provides a hint for stripping GUIDs from the files of one Microsoft product: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010499751033.aspx I imagine that the procedure for others would be similar. Past that, minimize your use of Microsoft products.

No, if you just copy files to external storage. If you do something fancy, like making an archive that includes ACLs with WinRAR, then GUIDs that are relative to your old system will be in the archive. Note that things like Microsoft Word documents often include turds that can link the...

Start DBAN with "verbose" at the "boot:" prompt and report where it stops.

DBAN removes DOS from the computer. The Microsoft Windows XP installer does not need DOS to reinstall the operating system. Ensure that your installation media is bootable and that you have your product key before wiping the computer.

DBAN will always report failure for a disk with bad sectors, but it will try to finish the wipe. Bad disks often take more time to finish.

DBAN does not override this kind of glitch. If you accidentally used an ATA command to protect part of the disk with a password, or if you used an ATA command to wipe the disk, then you must use the vendor diagnostic program to do an ATA wipe and unlock the disk. You probably have a...