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Dban is it bad ?
This is the story of the incredible shrinking disk. Somehow 88GB of disk disappeared when I tried to low level format a drive so I can do a clean fresh reinstall.
It was a 120GB IDE drive running XP professional with 3 partitions. 32gb, 42GB and 42Gb. After six reliable years issues were developing so I felt a clean install was needed.
First I used a floppy disk I made a few years back using software from Seagate site called "Disk wizard". It took 8 hours for it to completely erase the disk. I've used disk wizard several times in the past with great success.
Then out of curiosity I load a DBAN which I downloaded on Cd but never used.
Basically, I wanted to check out how it worked. I ran autonuke and 20 seconds later it said there was an error.
It didn't matter since I already did what I intended to do with disk wizard
or so I thought.
Well when I tried to install the OS again it only showed I had a 32GB hard drive.
Then I went into the bios and the bios Identified the drive correctly at Maxtor 6B120PO but said it was only 32GB in size.
What happened to the other 88GB?? how do I get it back.
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Stark Raving MOD
did you check for the compatibility jumper? aka cylinder limitation.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...nF6kcJlIrVPcmg
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Strange how the drive is behaving like I enabled cylinder limitation but I having touched the jumpers. I'm going to enable the cylinder limitation and see what happens.
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Stark Raving MOD
I doubt that it was DBAN that caused the issue. I've seen this happen before.
Are you sure the BIOS can handle a drive larger than 32G? Some systems needed an overlay program like EZBios. DBAN or another wiping utility would have wiped that out.
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Same computer it's been in for the last 6 years and it always read 120Gb
I considered flashing the bios but first I tried it on two other computers and had the same problem.
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Forget it . Now the entire computer wont boot. Not even a beep code. No idea why all I did was remove the hard drive and then use a can of compressed air to clean out some of the dust . I even disconnected every component and peripheral and reset the cmos and still no boot.
It's 7 years old anyway. Maybe closer to 8 years. First the hard drive then the mother board. I suppose it really time to say good night.
It's frustrating I thought I could rejuvenate the computer.
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Stark Raving MOD
you can also check the caps on the motherboard.
http://www.badcaps.net/
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Its strange, i have the same problems on a 200gb WD. maybe this is the solution:
http://bmaupin.wordpress.com/2010/11...process-crash/
But: last time when i used dban with autonuke on a different drive it worked.
data lifeguard diagnostics is now running. normal checking. quick-test was ok.
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I never have used the command line, always the GUI to nuke drives.
And i use a older version dates
2008-02-21
2.0.0 from here.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/
Newer versions just do not seem to boot up right.
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SOLVED
I am using official older version: 2007042900
Attention: in the older version list ontop is NEWEST nonworking 2.26 beta!
Even this older version was not working until i disattached internal cardreader(i have all parts open)-disabling drives should also work.
i did not yet test newest version with this.
did the interactive steps.
difference to non-working version.
during process one can see a line with mentioning ............kernel.
three passes are programmed in default version. is this needed or can i interrupt after first pass?
I first thought drive is defective which DLG(DATA LIFEGUARD od Western digital denied.
will test newest version by doing the same, cardreader-removal.
usb-keyboard can stay, this is at the moment true for older version.
usb-ps2-keyboard-exchange was advised in the other thread above.
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I sit down and read a good book while DBAN is doing its thing.
WD diagnostics does have a zero write function/option also.
But it only makes one pass which does not bury things well enough at times. And is slower.
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Originally Posted by Train
1. This file powerpc.iso is definitively corrupt. cannot boot. tried to burn on two pcs.
2. newest beta and older than this 2008-2007-version worked.
It took 7h 10min. for 200mb.
Attention: Cardreader and most probably other usb-drives must be removed.
If i am using the drive again to mount windows should i always use dban or would 1x wiping be enough? Using data lifeguard here for WD-drive.
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1 x wipe may be enough.
How can I write (burn) ISO files to CD or DVD?
http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm
Please note, you do not burn the .iso to teh disk but need a program that will unpack it and then burn it.
Link to videos and how to burn instructions.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=of...w=1795&bih=919
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nero burnt all image-files. only version 2.00 seems not getting the boot-command.
pls try it out. i also downloaded and loaded directly into nero. no chance.
this power-file needs special isoburner.
Last edited by Train; 06-01-2012 at 11:30 AM.
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hello train
could you extract your answers in my message. it could confuse others later.
thanks
and delete this message afterwards.
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