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by: tiltmonster February 9, 2013 11:48 AM PST

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DBAN will not boot

by tiltmonster - 2/9/13 11:48 AM

Any ideas why I can not get DBAN to boot up, and erase my hard drive? I have tried it with CD and USB. My system recovery discs boot in the same drive. I reboot with the DBAN disc in the same drive; and it goes right into Windows. I have tried every Bios boot order available, and tried a USB flash. Made CD ROM my primary boot drive. Made the hard drive with flash, primary boot. Seems if system discs will boot, I am booting the drive ok? Am I missing something. It is not a perfect set-up because I am using the DVD Rom to boot, in place of a dead CD drive. Even if this were the problem it seems I could boot with USB? I downloaded DBAN direct from the C-net sight direct to drive, and tried next older version from the DBAN sight. Still boot right past into Windows, every time. My system is about 10 years old, so I was considering something to do with the version of DBAN, or something on my computer it needs to run? Does not seem like it. Any ideas? Thanks!


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Redirect.

by gwrach923 - 2/11/13 11:58 AM

In Reply to: Redirect? by tiltmonster

Nothing malicious, my point was it's always better to download directly rather than using a mirror site.

On the Cnet download page under the big download button there is an option to do this. How is the disc erasure going?

Dafydd.


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Good sense of humor

by tiltmonster - 2/12/13 10:24 AM

In Reply to: Dban. by gwrach923

A sense of humor lightens up any cursing, and rage : ) I found this humorous, no ill will.


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Success at last

by tiltmonster - 2/10/13 4:41 PM

In Reply to: Try this... by Willy

Good news, I am now running DBAN on the target computer, and erasing the target hard-drive. Yippee! Major geeks sight triggered something, that antivirus picked up. FileHippo got it done clean. Man am I snakebitten here; I have got a bad external DVD burner just showing up on my download machine; unless the CD's are just too old. I don't burn many CD's mostly DVD's.... but have been using this drive all along the last month and a half. Loading and reloading all the system disks, new drivers, and all the software back on my good computer. Guess I wore it out. It just decided to go. On top of that, I got a real screwed up CD out of my stack here; which is scratched all around the center beyond where it seems the spindle would reach. Just the last attempt, no big deal diagnosing this. I am deffinately blind missing that cut up disc. I am not making sense of that. I would never put that back in the stack, and never had a drive go bad to cause it; so it must be bad from the 100 pack it came from a long time ago; or my failing external burner on the download machine did it. Not likely, didn't hear anything. I guess I will find out when I open the burner up to see. I am sure it needs a good cleaning anyway. It is not like I have a bunch old junk here on the new machine; but I do operate in a strange environment, harsh to the hardware. Nothing I can do about it though. Thanks for all the help an patience. Keeping my fingers crossed. Will post back when the drive is erased; and get back to the DVR phase (Willy)


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DBAN finished with errors

by tiltmonster - 2/11/13 1:30 PM

In Reply to: Success at last by tiltmonster

About seven hours on my slow DVDROM, and machine, hard drive seems to be erased?. Since my target computer had only a DVDROM, running the DBAN boot disc; I was not able to figure a way to get any log. Half way through, it sped up, and there were no errors. But I guess maybe some errors were found while erasing over night? Or Not?

The screen showing after the nuke, said the following : DBAN FINISHED WITH NON-FATAL ERRORS.....THEN SAYS TO CHECK THE LOG..........THEN THE START AND RUN TIMES......THEN * Fail ATA Disk WDC 320AAJB-0 00.0 298GB WD-WCARW6607672

Then in bold red letters it says KILLED (as the last line showing). Reboot of the computer, could not find operating system. DO I HAVE A NUKED DRIVE, READY FOR FORMATING AND USE-OR DO I STILL HAVE PROBLEMS?

I am getting a convertor cable to allow me to plug the drive into my USB, on the good working computer; then I can perhaps run a check DISK, look for any bad sectors, or format the drive. Should I do this? Do I need to? Before I start the next step; getting my DVR to recognize the nuked drive, formatting, and cloning. Probably should start a new thread for that, I guess.


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Use USB

by DBAN-NUKER - 2/11/13 5:54 AM

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Run DBAN from a flash drive =) Usually works when CD doesn't!

Enjoy


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not bootable

by tiltmonster - 2/11/13 11:51 AM

In Reply to: Use USB by DBAN-NUKER

Pretty sure the flash is not bootable. I did try that towards the end. It would not boot from flash. I got that download from a CNET link as well; so not sure; but it seemed to download ok. Just would not boot the machine no matter what boot sequence I tried. USB is not listed by itself under Bios(only in the sub menu for teh hard drive) and it would not change position in the boot sequence. Old computer.


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