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Recover data after dban use
I had just finished a reinstall of windows xp and had put all my files back in place, then when I was out my little sister saw the dban disk I used and she thought it was a game....
When I got home I ...
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DBAN MD5SUM Hash for Version 2.2.6 (i586)
Found this forum thread on SourceForge, but the MD5SUM Hash is for "dban.bzi", so that doesn't help at all. I checked elsewhere in the SourceForge forums, but I didn't find anything else. I also ...
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DBAN not able to format my HP notebook
I have a HP pavillion dv6 notebook that somebody gave me. It has Windows Vista installed on it, and somehow it got ruined. I don't know what actually happened, but Windows vista will not boot. It just ...
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How does Darik's Boot and Nuke work?
How does oft-recommended hard drive scrubber Darik's Boot and Nuke actually work?
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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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Multiboot liveCD with custom ISOs
I want to create one bootable DVD, on which I would love to have
Truecrypt rescueCD
Ubuntu 10.10 liveCD
DBAN
I have ISOs of all of above. Do you have any idea how to acomplish so?
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How to wipe an IPod with DBAN
I'm looking to use a utility such as Darik's Boot And Nuke (www.dban.org) to wipe my iPod (classic fifth generation) so I can sell it on Ebay (without having to worry about my data being recovered.) ...
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Secure format of an SSD
When selling / throwing away / giving away HDDs I always use DBAN to do a DoD wipe first.
Is this still a valid thing to do on an SSD?
Will it have an adverse effect on the SSD's lifespan?
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Disk wiping other than DBAN
Sometimes using DBAN takes several days to wipe a disk. What alternatives do you have experience with that work within a few hours and offer the simplicity of DBAN? I am mainly interested in free ...
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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 just fine.
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