Can't boot from a USB drive on a 10-year-old PC

Jul 5, 2018
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I'm trying to erase an HDD on a 10-year-old PC using DBAN, but I can't get the BIOS to boot from the USB drive. I've made a bootable drive with Rufus several times, trying every combination of options I could, but nothing worked.

I don't know what motherboard the PC has (I just know it's a Gigabyte S-series board), but I'm sure I can find out. The BIOS doesn't seem to have a setting to boot from USB, the only USB-related boot settings are to boot from USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-HDD or USB-CDROM. I've tried all of those, and nothing worked.

Appreciate any help.
 
Solution
Get hirens boot cd or any other utility cd rom with dban on it and use cd boot,or just put the HDD into another system and do it that way.
Or get plop boot manager you can install it onto the HDD to make it recognize and run the usb and Dban will delete it anyway afterwards.
Why do you even need to run dban?
Get hirens boot cd or any other utility cd rom with dban on it and use cd boot,or just put the HDD into another system and do it that way.
Or get plop boot manager you can install it onto the HDD to make it recognize and run the usb and Dban will delete it anyway afterwards.
Why do you even need to run dban?
 
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