Hi,
I recently used DBan on a friend's PC with mulitple hard disks (2 to be exact). He had C and D drive, the C containing the Windows installation and his D drive having all of his personal media files, Word documents, etc. My original intent was to erase his infected Windows (thus, erase the C drive) while preserving his media files on the D drive. I then wanted to reinstall Windows on the C drive and be back to normal.
When presented with the screen to select which drive/partitions to erase, I saw a list of 4 partitions/drives. Upon selecting the first, the next two partitions were automatically marked with asterisks. I assumed that I had selected the C drive (the 4th, unchecked partition being the D drive) and proceeded with the erasure.
Upon selecting to install Windows XP from the setup disc, I receive an error that setup does not detect any hard disks. I then am forced to reboot. Additionally, I notice that during boot-up I now have an option to press "CTRL-I" to enter in some sort of Intel RAID controller screen. The screen shows both drives and/or partitions listed separately with green status, but another listing of a RAID 0 partition (which I think is the combined partition as its size is the sum of the two individual listings), indicated a status of "not bootable."
One more thing, if I attempt to boot the PC without the XP setup disc, the boot stops after the message "Verifying VMI pool data" or something similar. So from this I conclude that I did indeed erase the Windows installation but I don't know much more than that.
If anybody can provide me with some information, I would be greatly appreciative. I simply want to re-install Windows while preserving my friend's data. Thank you.
Mike_A
I recently used DBan on a friend's PC with mulitple hard disks (2 to be exact). He had C and D drive, the C containing the Windows installation and his D drive having all of his personal media files, Word documents, etc. My original intent was to erase his infected Windows (thus, erase the C drive) while preserving his media files on the D drive. I then wanted to reinstall Windows on the C drive and be back to normal.
When presented with the screen to select which drive/partitions to erase, I saw a list of 4 partitions/drives. Upon selecting the first, the next two partitions were automatically marked with asterisks. I assumed that I had selected the C drive (the 4th, unchecked partition being the D drive) and proceeded with the erasure.
Upon selecting to install Windows XP from the setup disc, I receive an error that setup does not detect any hard disks. I then am forced to reboot. Additionally, I notice that during boot-up I now have an option to press "CTRL-I" to enter in some sort of Intel RAID controller screen. The screen shows both drives and/or partitions listed separately with green status, but another listing of a RAID 0 partition (which I think is the combined partition as its size is the sum of the two individual listings), indicated a status of "not bootable."
One more thing, if I attempt to boot the PC without the XP setup disc, the boot stops after the message "Verifying VMI pool data" or something similar. So from this I conclude that I did indeed erase the Windows installation but I don't know much more than that.
If anybody can provide me with some information, I would be greatly appreciative. I simply want to re-install Windows while preserving my friend's data. Thank you.
Mike_A