and is also a good idea as it defaults to a bs of
512 bytes.
Dban or wipe will do all this for you, but you can do it yourself.
Yes. And if you do it yourself from a shell, you know exactly what's going
on and can use the computer for other stuff while you're erasing whichever
d
Am 15. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so:
moin moin,
Not a fan of dban for that reason. Nwipe using several passes of the rcmp
method is how I usually wipe a drive. The I format it a few times with
I forgot about nwipe.
random file systems and a few partitions and finally drop a fre
Not a fan of dban for that reason. Nwipe using several passes of the rcmp
method is how I usually wipe a drive. The I format it a few times with
random file systems and a few partitions and finally drop a fresh OS on it
before donating. If recycling I typically do one pass with nwipe and take
the
ailto:smelhei...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I need help again with my computer. I am not sure what happened,
but ever since I used dban to erase one HDD connected through a
usb adapter my desktop doesn't want to load an OS. It was working
fine until dban started to e
Am 14. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Stephen M so:
moin moin,
There is a problem using dban. When I started it up it never gave me
options on what to scan. Now my two SATA drives along with my USB drive
are not working. I need help to understand what is going on please.
dban wipes every drive it
Test disk by get (i think) is very good at finding data on drives that have
had wipes and the like.
On Dec 15, 2014 2:26 PM, "Stephen M" wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I need help again with my computer. I am not sure what happened, but ever
> since I used dban to erase one H
timeouts, so maybe bad luck of it just giving out on a cleansing?
Every disk seems to die in different ways, especially with the
advent of ssd's.
-mb
On 12/15/2014 05:59 PM, Michael Torres wrote:
That is odd. IDK anything ab
If the disk was wiped by DBAN then there are NO partitions to mount.
Try "sudo fdisk -l" then partition the correct drive sd? followed bu
mkfs for the filesystem you plan to use.
James C.
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or not sure if they work or
> if it was just my usb adapter that the power cable is shot. Because they
> weren't loading on my laptop.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Michael Torres
> wrote:
>>
>> That is odd. IDK anything about dban but it does seem like
I can look but most of them are either a 2.5 or not sure if they work or if
it was just my usb adapter that the power cable is shot. Because they
weren't loading on my laptop.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Michael Torres
wrote:
>
> That is odd. IDK anything about dban but i
That is odd. IDK anything about dban but it does seem like something
messed with BIOS do you have a clean working drive that you can
install and boot to. One that is NOT a USB? Try that, at least you'll be
able to narrow down the issue in one direction or the other.
Mike
On Mon
t;
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Michael Torres
> wrote:
>>
>> I am not trying one bit to sound arrogant or sarcastic, but have you
>> tried to reset BIOS? or Re-order the boot order?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stephen M w
n, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>>
>> This might seem odd. But is there a chance that dban messed with my BIOS
>> firmware? I am having trouble loading even a live CD. BIOS doesn't always
>> work but computer will boot into EFI. I know it sounds strange
I am not trying one bit to sound arrogant or sarcastic, but have you tried
to reset BIOS? or Re-order the boot order?
Mike
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>
> This might seem odd. But is there a chance that dban messed with my BIOS
> firmware? I am having troubl
This might seem odd. But is there a chance that dban messed with my BIOS
firmware? I am having trouble loading even a live CD. BIOS doesn't always
work but computer will boot into EFI. I know it sounds strange but thats
the only thing I can think of. If it was just the drives than I
Ok, well at this point I should be able to get a program to rewrite the
boot sector so I can setup an OS on the drives. So that is what I am
looking for something that will help on that respect. I am that the
creators of dban would not make a program that would wipe a disk completely
so that you
It sounds like it wiped at least the
boot sector, and probably a good chunk of your os disk as an
unintended victim. Hate to say it, but never used dban, so not
sure if it's a glitch or just meant to blatantly wipe *everything*
in a system. Sounds lik
Hi everyone,
I need help again with my computer. I am not sure what happened, but ever
since I used dban to erase one HDD connected through a usb adapter my
desktop doesn't want to load an OS. It was working fine until dban started
to erase the entire disk. I stopped it before it could ge
om various entropy sources. You probably want to do this instead:
>
> for i in `seq 10` ; do
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=32k
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=32k
> done
>
> /dev/urandom is much much faster, though its randomness is not as
> guaranteed. Using a bs=
s not as
guaranteed. Using a bs= on the dd command is also a good idea as it
defaults to a bs of 512 bytes.
Dban or wipe will do all this for you, but you can do it yourself.
Yes. And if you do it yourself from a shell, you know exactly what's
going on and can use the computer for othe
Any reason why it won't mount any drives? I just attempted to use my
adapter with my second computer connected to one of the drives dban erased
and it won't mount at all. It doesn't give me the option and I can't force
it because it can't see the fs.
On Sun, Dec 1
14, 2014 11:51 AM, "Todd Millecam" wrote:
>
>> dban probably just found all drives and wiped them all would be my
>> guess. To make them usable again, you'll probably need to format them.
>> Try booting up with the gparted live cd and see what you can see.
>&g
The problem right now is the USB with my different is won't mount. And
when I tried a live cd. It didn't boot.
On Dec 14, 2014 11:51 AM, "Todd Millecam" wrote:
> dban probably just found all drives and wiped them all would be my guess.
> To make them usable agai
dban probably just found all drives and wiped them all would be my guess.
To make them usable again, you'll probably need to format them. Try
booting up with the gparted live cd and see what you can see.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Stephen M wrote:
>
> There is a problem using
There is a problem using dban. When I started it up it never gave me
options on what to scan. Now my two SATA drives along with my USB drive
are not working. I need help to understand what is going on please.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Stephen Partington
wrote:
>
> Todd thanks
rything on block device /dev/sda--give it a
>> while to run as it's writing random numbers across the entire drive and
>> then finishing by writing nothing but 0s on it. This makes all data on the
>> device non-recoverable.
>>
>> You need to overwrite the data an
t; device non-recoverable.
>
> You need to overwrite the data anywhere from 4 - 15 times before it's
> clean and nothing can be recovered from it.
>
> That's essentially all dban/wipe is doing. If you want to get even more
> primitive, then you can use dd (garunteed to b
0s on it. This makes all data on the
device non-recoverable.
You need to overwrite the data anywhere from 4 - 15 times before it's clean
and nothing can be recovered from it.
That's essentially all dban/wipe is doing. If you want to get even more
primitive, then you can use dd (garunteed
HI,
I have a couple drives that I want to wipe and give them to the Loco
group. I have never done a wipe on my own computer. I want to see whats
the best method. I know there is dban, wipe, and many other solutions. I
will be using a SATA to USB adapter so I don't have to open my comp
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