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Best practice to put HDD into laptop before running DBAN?
I finally gathered enough info and files to put ye olde flakey HDD out of its misery. Burned Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) onto a newly bought 32GB USB stick (as recommended), figured out the booting-...
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Fastest way to nuke HDD and reinstall OS to a laptop?
I have a HP Pavilion dv2000 that I want to sell. But before that, I want to nuke the HDD and reinstall WinXP. The HDD currently has two partitions, one containing the OS (in NTFS) and one called ...
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DBAN Hangs at PCI (sysfs)
I'm running "Derik's Boot and Nuke 2.2.6 beta". When I get to a blue screen (not a BSOD) after booting to the live CD the following is printed...
Derik's Boot and Nuke 2.2.6 (beta) is
starting.
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DBAN fails on brand new laptop. What's wrong?
I just got a few new Dell Latitude E5500 laptops. I'm trying to wipe their hard drives using DBAN 1.0.7.
DBAN boots up, I type zero at the prompt, and it gets to the "loading dwipe" part ...
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