DBAN bootable USB not working

[Spork829]

I need to permanently wipe everything on a drive on a family member's PC. I figured DBAN is the best option. I followed this guide and used Rufus to make it a bootable USB. However, the PC just won't detect the USB. When I set it to boot from USB devices I just get a "no boot devices found" error. I tried every USB port on the damn thing, and the "boot from USB devices" option in the BIOS is enabled. Ideas?

[Enderman]

Why not just format it in file explorer or disk management...?

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Why not just format it in file explorer or disk management...?

The person is rather paranoid and there's fairly sensitive data on it.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

The person is rather paranoid and there's fairly sensitive data on it.

Ok then use a program like ccleaner to overwrite it multiple times...

Or just destroy the drive, that's always the best solution.

[Spork829]

11 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Ok then use a program like ccleaner to overwrite it multiple times...

Or just destroy the drive, that's always the best solution.

I was planning to use the drive after clearing everything off of it. ccleaner looks like a good option though, I'll try that out.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

I was planning to use the drive after clearing everything off of it. ccleaner looks like a good option though, I'll try that out.

First use disk management to delete all the partitions off of the drive and make one single new partition, just in case there were multiple partitions on it before.

Then use ccleaner to "wipe free space".

The more passes you do the more irrecoverable it will be.