Disk Wipe: DoD level
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Since I have picked up a new laptop (Acer Aspire, 2n1), I'm prepping my laptop to sell.
My normal tools are not seeming to want to access the drive to wipe it. As I am selling it to some unknown person I want to do a DoD 7 pass wipe on the drive before I install the OS and 'basic' applications.
DBAN just isn't seeing the drive, even with setting the bios to not be RAID or AHCI.
What other suggestions might one have...
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That's very strange.
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Maybe i have an old copy of DBAN.. I'll D/L a new copy and see.
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Never mind - downloaded a new copy of DBAN and it found and is working on the drive..
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Must have just needed a newer driver.
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My guess. Hirens Boot CD is a great tool.. though mine is an older one, it still gets the job done.
I wonder if the cycle I'm running is enough..
PRNG: Mersenne Twister (mt19937ar-cok) 2 rounds
Method: DoD 522.0.22-m 7 passesIt's only suppose to run for another estimated 19 hours, 23 minutes...
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If it's a UEFI-enabled BIOS and it was in UEFI mode, it wouldn't see an older version of DBAN. That was probably your issue.
