I hear you. Not only does one have to use fdisk to delete the partition info
first, also the MBR and XMBR have to be reset before using dBan.
If I have to erase e.g. 4 HHDs, I'd mount them in an obsolete system, fire up
DOS with fdisk and Zap, and then go dBan after a reboot.
Alternatives? Linux dd util. Faster? No. Through Windows? Forget it.
Also, beware that not all dBan versions work as advertised. Mostly, the floppy
versions are working, though.
Just a few hours ago I started dBan on two relatively slow systems, wiping 8 HDDs. That meaning at 5:30 pm, and I'll have to wait patiently until tomorrow morning before
the wipe job is done. The systems in use are a 400 MHz AMD k6-2, and a 600 MHz Celery. Nothing spectacular, but they do their jobs, overnight.
Sorry, no short-cuts to this.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I need to wipe/zero a whole stack of drives. I know DBAN is the best tool
for this, but it requires rebooting to a CD and then having my machine
dedicated to this task for several hours. Is there a way to do a secure
wipe without rebooting to a dedicated OS? Maybe through a VM? Or can you
only get that the required low-level access to the drives outside of
Windows?
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Brian
