BigPapaDean Posted August 21, 2013 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted August 21, 2013 My son Jordan is trying to wipe his hard drive and is trying to use a program called dban and we followed the protocol and downloaded it and burned it onto a cd. When he turns his pc off and then restarts with the cd in the compartment all it does is reboot Windows. Then it opens the cd and asks what to do with it. Isn't that saying it reads its there but wants to know what you want to do with it? We can't seem to get the pc to reboot to the cd. Can someone help us with this process? Awards
Blackbart Posted August 21, 2013 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Posted August 21, 2013 You need to change your boot settings to boot from CD not your HD... :) JohnnyQuest 1 Awards
JohnnyQuest Posted August 21, 2013 Member ID: 1965 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1176 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1082 Achievement Points: 8599 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15, 2016 Birthday: 02/11/1969 Posted August 21, 2013 yes go into your bios...and set it to boot from c.d...or else it will do it all day....and part of the evening...lol....press start button on comp. hit delete untill bios appears...go into your boot settings.thats it,, easy peasy broken neasy.
BigPapaDean Posted August 21, 2013 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted August 21, 2013 I will have him try this when he wakes up. He is like me he has a messed up sleep schedule! JohnnyQuest 1 Awards
JohnnyQuest Posted August 21, 2013 Member ID: 1965 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1176 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1082 Achievement Points: 8599 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15, 2016 Birthday: 02/11/1969 Posted August 21, 2013 But just remember after install go back into bios and change it back to boot from hdd...other wise big Dean man you will c.d boot all day and part of the evening as well,,i'm telling you this as i've forgotten to change it back many times after reformatting,,,,p.i.t.a. lol
TecHnOBoY Posted August 21, 2013 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Posted August 21, 2013 There could be several reasons: most new BIOS have a one time boot menu. The BIOS should show a few options during POST. (Mostly you have to press F12 or F11) If your BIOS doesn't support this, change the Boot order (F2 or DEL to enter the BIOS setup) Next ensure the disc is finalized. If it is not, it might be possible that your PC ignores it on startup. Burn the CD again with a slower write speed, 4x or 8x (DCD); 8x or 12x (CD) should be fine. /////////// Be careful with DBAN. It wipes every(!) connected storage device (SSD, HDD, USB stick...) without any warning and starts to wipe all devices at the same time. There is no way back. (sure you can shutdown the computer, but not without data loss) Depending on the wipe method, it is impossible to recover the data. Awards
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