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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.
Waiting for USB devices to register..........................done.
PCI (sys)
After that, it just sits there forever... Any advice, other than an older version of DBAN? I have gotten this version of DBAN to work on an older machine before.
David
Posted 2010-11-08T18:20:33.803
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You need to disable your card reader or other devices in BIOS.
seanieb
Posted 2010-11-08T18:20:33.803
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Wow. Quick, Simple, and easy answer that works. Thank you so much.
P.S. It was the card reader... – David – 2010-11-09T21:20:43.747
Flas Media Reader was the only device I needed to disable as well. Thanks for the heads up! – Melikoth – 2012-02-08T13:35:44.770
Hmm. Firmware F.16 on an HP dv9347cl doesn't seem to offer the ability to disable the card reader. :-\ – Dennis Wurster – 2012-12-10T21:09:34.647
DBAN is pointless use MHDD Secure Erase http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/. MHDD erases using functions built into the HD's controller. So it is much faster and also erases parts of the HD DBAN cannot.
– Riguez – 2011-03-24T13:48:45.317Thanks for the comments @jb48394! I will try to remember to use this next time I need to wipe a drive clean. I use DBAN because it offers Gutmann (35 passes). The governemtn uses it, so why not me? :) – David – 2011-03-24T14:06:24.667
@David: Gutmann's algorithm was already useless by the time it had been published (according to himself), and was never used by "the" government (or by any government, americans).
– user1686 – 2012-01-26T23:02:09.050I gave MHDD a shot, using version 4.6, and it was unable to detect the HDD in the laptop I was trying to wipe. Version 4.5 supports ATA/SCSI, so I probably just grabbed the wrong iso. – Melikoth – 2012-02-08T13:43:22.670
I'm very sure that DBAN works. I have used it numerous times. If you don't want to waste a CD attempting it, just make your flash drive boot-able with the ISO on it. Let me know if you have any problems. – David – 2012-02-08T15:19:55.807