disk wiping

DBAN still works as a blunt, effective tool for wiping whole hard disks, but it’s important to understand what it does, what it cannot do, and the safer, modern alternatives for SSDs and compliance-sensitive scenarios. Background / Overview DBAN (Darik’s Boot And Nuke) has been a go‑to utility...

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today learn about using your own images to create a VM using PowerShell, wiping a disk when using the Windows PE environment, and how to execute a PowerShell script in Windows PE. Continue reading...

I am trying to go back to win 7 ult from win 10. My computer is a HP 8200 sff (refurb) with: i5 3.2GHZ processor 8G RAM 1 TB HDD The problem is getting rid of the win 10 partitions. Most disk wiping utilities either don't have partition editing capabilities or are not set up for the win 10...

Hello I tried to refresh my pc tablet (build 10074) because it was getting slow but when i did it went into automatic recovery and i cant wipe my disc because it said there was an error.

a friend dropped off a dell 3521 for me to install windows8.1 on. for some reason windows8 has disappeared and the Hdd is locked of so i cant install 8.1 on any partition. i took the Hdd drive out to get access to it and i cant even do that,its protected. i put windows8 on a usb stick and all...

Morning All, I have a Sony VAIO VPCF22CFX/B, 8GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Win7 Ultimate. I did buy it used & I'm sorta leaning toward HDD failure, but I figured I'd ask the experts. Enclosed is my file. Hopefully you guys can pinpoint the issue. Thanks for checking it out. Oh, & on a POSSIBLY...

Hi guys, For personal security reasons (two words: online poker,) I have embarked on a mission to make sure that there is 100% (or close to it..) certainty that no one can check or find out what applications were used and accessed on my computer. What kind of help I need from you guys...

Ok well my PC recently got a virus attack, I tried virus scans but nothing would work. It wouldn't even let me do a system restore. So the only option I had was a reformat, now i'm new to Windows7 and assumed it was similar to Windows XP where I could just put my disc in and it would reformat...

I have just finished installing Windows 7 64 bit on a clean hard drive. I have two other hard drives, one with 32 bit Windows 7 and the other with the beta. I want to use these hard drives for file storage. I bought Paragon Disk Wiper and was only able to download the 64 bit version. But I can't...

I searched every where and people have had this issue but none of which has solved my problem... so the scenario is i dual booted XP and Win7 for a while because i wasn't sure if it was the right choice.. when i use to boot i got the screen do you wish to boot an earler version of windows or...

Hi, I am thinking about purchasing Wipe Drive Pro for $90.00. Alternatively I could purchase the new Windows 7 if it had a feature to wipe my drive clean of older files with some kind of encription tech. I would rather spend the money on Windows 7 if it had this. Does anyone know if any of...

ok, i have gone through all the threads and tried just about everything but am still having problems. first i could not get past the first screen that has the blue wallpaper. then i disabled all non essentials in the bios which allowed me to get a bit further. however everytime i try it freezes...