Windows 10: DBAN (Daric's Boot and Nuke)

DBAN is a tool that some find useful. All this installing, updating, uninstalling, ad infinite, can be simplified somewhat by swapping drives, wiping, replacing, etc.
I've also seen posts where drives were trashed?? I doubt it but regardless...................
Spare drives or pulled drives can sometimes be fixed with DBAN *Huh

Several years ago when I ran across DBAN there was also a report that the majority of HDDs returned to manufacturers were found to be serviceable. User had a problem and sent them back for replacement.

I looked around and found 21 drives, in old machines, in the bad box under the bench, and still installed but not working in currently used machines. I installed DBAN on an old XP test machine. Each test takes some time so a test machine is the way to go.

I tested the 21 drives over a period of time and DBAN returned 19 of the 21 as serviceable. A couple old Western Digital "Caviar" drives holding an astounding 8GB *Huh

Google will find DBAN for you and you may have storage space that you didn't realize you have *Biggrin

:)

 

preparing automatic repair, blank screen

The way I fixed this problem is that i used a bootable usb stick with "DBAN". DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is like an OS with which you can erase your hard drives. I used DBAN to erase my hard drive
clean and then used a bootable Windows 10 usb stick to reinstall Windows. This will erase everything on your computer...but it works. I had no choice, I have tried everything to recover my Windows but with no success before this. Hope this helps.

I have done this on a Lenovo Ideapad 100 15IBD

 

Should I wipe drive before reinstalling windows 10

Hi,

I had a lot of malware (and blue screen, etc) after I accidentally clicked the wrong link

(was an .exe file). Antivirus programs removed almost all but to be sure I reinstalled win 10

after downloading the iso file.

But now I'm wondering during the installation process I could have formatted drive c or

removed all partitions before installing windows 10. I also could have used Darik's Boot

and Nuke - DBAN to completed erase everything.

Should I do any or all of that to be certain the malware is gone?

Thanks

* Moved from Virus & Malware

 

Darik's Boot and Nuke - Use to Secure Wipe a Hard Drive - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

DBAN is handy to use outside of installed OS, make a boot disk or USB and use it but best to disconnect other drives first. From within windows, Easus Partition master can do similar job by erasing disk and writing zeroes or another data to disk multiple times and so jar HDD into working condition if there were many bad sectors of SW nature. If there was a physical damage to surface and/or heads, no SW can repair that. Lo level formatting can help in some cases too.