On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

> Bryan,
> I'm made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it
> in my A drive and booted up on it,  it wouldn't atually wipe my entire
> drive without asking me first would it ?

As far as I know, it would not.  The later versions of dban allow you to wipe 
just a single partition, rather than the entire drive.  You would have to 
interact with the app after it detects the partitions and drives to tell it 
which one to wipe.

However, I would recommend that you only insert and boot from that floppy when 
you KNOW you intend to wipe a partition or drive and obviously, you want to 
have a backup of all data before you do that.  
-- 
Bryan Phinney


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