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HazBot240599

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Just got DBAN to wipe my HDD but in 5 seconds it pops up with a blancco ad????????? I know DBAN is now owned by blancco but I haven't figured out why it is doing this. On the ad screen you cannot do anything (type/use the mouse) it just sits there... Any idea how to fix this??? If not has anyone got another "Data Desutruction Software" FOR USB I could use??? Many Thanks.
 
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HazBot240599

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Thanks for your help, unfortunately it didn't do it, it said "shred" was not a command but you made me realise I could use other commands that were not listed. In the end "dod" did it, anyway I'm gonna select your answer anyway :)
 
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On just about any modern Linux system, you don't get much better than the ATA Secure Erase command (assuming you're using an ATA drive - USB enclosures don't work). You send the command to the drive and the drive self-obliterates (which is important because EVERYTHING is gone on the drive, so if you have a Windows partition on the same drive it would be gone too). It's also more effective on SSDs than DBAN would be.

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

Note that on just about every system I have, the bios locks the drive so this can't be done until you do the suspend to ram trick mentioned in step 1a of the guide above. And of course, this will take some time on a mechanical harddrive. On my SSDs', it'll wipe 200 gig in less than 5 minutes. It also should go without saying make sure you pick the right drive (I'd unplug drives you DON'T want wiped). As there isn't a way back from this as far as I know. That's kinda the point.
 
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