HDD not working properly

[Sa1tama]

Hello!

I just want to wipe my HDD and an SSD with a USB. I tried Rufus and DBan, but all i got was a FreeDos thing. Can you tell me what am I doing wrong?

 

 

 

The USB drive:

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

You have to plug in that usb flash drive, restart your system and boot from the usb drive to start DBan.

Then you'll see this:

Follow the instructions and that's it.

[Sa1tama]

On 2/4/2018 at 9:20 PM, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

You have to plug in that usb flash drive, restart your system and boot from the usb drive to start DBan.

Then you'll see this:

Follow the instructions and that's it.

i just did that, but it shows me freeDos thing

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

5 minutes ago, _SAITAMA_ said:

i just did that, but it shows me freeDos thing

Ok, redo the stick but this time use Universal USB Installer and in it there's an option for Dban, select it and see if it works.

Another option would be if you still have an optical drive, to make a bootable disk and boot from that.

[ProjectBox153]

If you want to format them, why not do it through Windows?

[Sa1tama]

2 minutes ago, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

Ok, redo the stick but this time use Universal USB Installer and in it there's an option for Dban, select it and see if it works.

Another option would be if you still have an optical drive, to make a bootable disk and boot from that.

Thanks! By the way when i booted to USB this popped up:

[Sa1tama]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

If you want to format them, why not do it through Windows?

I want to completely wipe them

[ProjectBox153]

9 minutes ago, _SAITAMA_ said:

I want to completely wipe them

And? A format does that. 

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

5 hours ago, _SAITAMA_ said:

Thanks! By the way when i booted to USB this popped up:

Honestly I've never see that before when making a DBan stick. Did you managed to get it working with Universal USB Installer?

Oh another program that can low level format drives is HDDGuru Low Level format tool. You can install it in windows so it will work without problems. Downside to it is that the free version is limited to 50mb/s. 

5 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

And? A format does that. 

A normal format just tells the os that its empty, but the data is still there. There's another type called low level format, where it wipes the data completely.