How to securely erase your old computer's hard drive
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2019
- Find out how to wipe all the data from your old hard drive using the free software Darik's Boot and Nuke. You'll just need a spare USB drive to run it.
After erasing the drive, you can safely dispose of your old computer.
Download Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN):
sourceforge.net/projects/dban/
Download Rufus to load DBAN onto your USB drive:
rufus.ie/
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Thanks for this , Dave. I was looking everywhere for a secure wipe procedure for my old Dell laptop before I give it away. The procedure worked as you described, and now I can rest, knowing that my info is not going to travel with the laptop. Much appreciation for being direct and accurate with your presentation..
My mum is from England so I had to subscribe.
I like the way you explain how to do various tasks in detail step by step !
Thats the real reason I subscribed.
This is excellent ! Your instructions are clear, straight to the point, easy to understand, and fast. Thanks so much. Hope you keep doing this! :) You're great at it.
Really really helpful Dave! I have been looking for help on this subject all over the place... and this was the one really good and helpful spot. Thank you! Very much appreciated.
An awesome tutorial, clear and concise! It worked perfectly with each step! Thanks
Thank you for such a clear and easy to follow explanation. A friend has asked me to help him wipe his harddrive, as I'm supposed to know about these things. Except in this case I didn't. This video really helps!
I just wanted to sell off my 12 years old Dell inspiron 1564 and I have seen almost 5-6 videos and all of them were so confusing, finally I got to the right person , thank you very much for the help 🙏🏻❤ I really appreciate it
You made this process so easy and painless! Thanks for this wonderful and informative video, very well done! I am also going to subscribe and check your other videos.
Very helpful Dave. I couldn't have done it without you! It took some time for me to work out how to boot from usb... it was by no means straightforward (for me). Everything you covered worked as described.
Note: It appears that the ASUS with AMD A8 is going to take nearly 12 hours to wipe the HDD using DoD Short!
Thanks for letting me know it worked for you! Do you know how many GB or TB your hard drive has, out of interest?
Extremely helpful. Best I have found online. Thank you!
Thanks, this was exactly what I needed and appreciate the instructions on how to make the bootable usb drive. 🙏
ALL I CAN SAY IA THANLS YPU SOOOOOOO MUCH I spent 2 hours watching another tutorial but u explained it so well
Thank you for the detailed and easy to follow steps. It really saved hours of my time !!
I found this tutorial very helpful (thank you) in erasing my old Samsung R730 laptop's hard-drive with Windows 7 installed. Just follow the instructions on a separate comp and take your time . . . Took nine hours on a 500gb drive, by the way
perfect tutorial wipe was complete and everything went smoothly. thanks!
NOTE: if pressing F10 doesn't work in starting the wipe, press it simultaneously with Fn. Any how, I had to disable the Secure Boot function in the BIOS first in order for the USB method to work (I'm wiping a Win10 laptop). Once that was done, everything in this video worked easily! Thanks Dave!!
Followed exactly and worked perfectly. Thanks!!
Thanks, Dave. A great tutorial. I want to share with future viewers a bit of a snag that I encountered. When I searched for the Rufus file after downloading both DBAN and Rufus, I got an error message that Windows (7 Pro) could not “open” the Rufus file. To solve that I used Control panel to link DBAN as the program to open: .iso extension files. Once done, finding the Rufus file and running DBAN to create the bootable wipe thumb drive proceeded as you describe. I hope this lesson helps others. Cheers. Bryan
Thanks Dave... I had to fetch the dban download from a different source but otherwise all instructions worked perfectly.
Many thanks clear and concise. Got my USB done so off to wipe !! cheers again for your help.
Very good video Dave!
Thanks for the video. It has saved me a lot of time. Much appreciated!
Leaving a comment for the algorithm. Really good video, it helped me a lot, much respect
This information worked great! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. This is was a very concise and effective video.
thanx for the vid, been helpful so far
Thanks. You just saved my friend and coworker 100 dollars.
BTW My brother works for the DOD. I asked him what to do. He said, "I don't know. We just call the IT department."
Fantastic. Really good, explains well.
Thank you so much Dave, it works really well 🙂
Thanks for the help. It is very helpful.
Super worked a treat thanks for the tech tip
Thank you for the informative video
quick, precise, clear , well down
Great video, thank you!
Worked like a charm. I was able to erase all the data on my 13yo Compaq laptop. I tried this a year ago using a CD and failed miserably and gave up. Now I can finally clean out my cupboard! Cheers
Very useful. Thank you so much!
Perfect video, everything is clear
So relaxed, educating and entertaining. Well detailed. Well done. Would I be able to load a new windows on the drive? I'm trying to get rid of smode
Great job! (Finally, a video that doesn't tell me to just delete the files and empty the recycle folder...)
saved my life
thanks from Brazil
5 years later, and thanks! Cheers.
Top stuff man
You saved me today! thank you
Easily done! Thanks :)
Great tutorial. I have done this method with other machines to recycle using a USB drive, but now i'm trying this with an old machine with XP on it, and it will not boot to any other drive than the hard drive that the OS is on. I've tried disabling drives and there is no secure boot or UEFI options in the BIOS. If anyone has any information that will help, that would be greatly appreciated.
It possible to use this to wipe a macbook harddrive that has been removed and plugged into another new macbook by usb? The old one won't boot, so I need to find a way to wipe the old drive.
Thank you, this video was useful. I am wiping all my data before giving my old laptop to my parents ;))
Also I tested with my usb and when it wipes your USB, does it put dban and rufus on the usb? I can assume they do that to let you know you wiped it successfully?
Hello, it's a good tutorial! I have a question: what is this option boot: "dban libata.ignore_hpa=1", do uusial customer need this?
Thanks
perfect, thanks !
Great tutorial. Thanks. but I'm confuse. But how can I do it in windows 7. Because apple boot menu is different like what you showed in the video compare to windows.
I want to wipe just hard drive D and I want to keep C where windows is installed.. can I use the hard drive d again and if I use dban is this will delete windows also
When booting dban I get the message- terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error' and after it boots it says “Unrecognized Device /dev/sdb and /dev/sda. What do I do??? I’ve been trying this for 4 hours now and this is the furthest I’ve got
I have the Same problem
Thank you it worked perfectly
Please another help I want to reuse my laptop the one I wiped the hard disk what should I do??
Thanks!
Hey I deleted a file from a folder...does I need to wipe that particular folder or the whole hard drive...kindly reply
I want to wipe my thumb drive which is write protected, i tried to boot dban from another fully working thumb drive and i unplugged the hard disk from motherboard, inserted both the thumb drive but dban couldn't detect the write protected thumb drive. It shows unrecognised device
Thank you! Almost got rid of an old computer without doing this lol
Excellent video, I have subscribed to your channel. I have tried the sane procedure and I also see the SCSI disk like your screen. Just to be sure I have also wiped the SCSI disk as well. Do you know whether the SCSI disk can be removed from the laptop?
I want to erase my main thosiba HDD of 1Tb which is arrive when in buy my Laptop but when i made BOOTABLE dban on usb and i tried to erase my hdd but when i started F10 doesn't work when i select my HDD to erase can u suggest what to do??
Dave, great video, I have a question. I have a bunch of old HDD's of various sizes and types and a usb multi adapter with which to connect them to a computer, If I think back, I could not get dban to recognise it, is there a way it can?
Hi Dave, thanks for sharing. Just got a few questions though, after starting the wiping of the hard drive, is it possible to stop or cancel by any means and if it is okay to resume or start all over again? here is my case, I started the wiping of the hard drive, apparently it took already 24hrs and I am at 20% only for a 2TB hard drive. Currently have power interruption and my device wont last for another 4 hours. What to do now...please advise
what will happened to the laptop if it is turned on after its storage gets deleted? does it become freedos or something different?
Rufus 3.11 or portable version will not run when clicked on XP is there anything else to run dean on?
Hello, I am currently waiting for my old PC to wipe. Thanks for your advice. However I had some problems as rufus would not give to run command only the option to save. So I had to experiment by saving to my desktop then going around about to get the job done. Seems to be working. 1 hour 30 for an 80gb Windows 7 hrd drive. DOD 3 passes. I hope that
is about right. Thanks Dave.
Trying to use with windows XP. Prepped usb as instructed. The boot does not have an option for usb hdd. Jus usb zip and usb fdd. Those don’t work for booting from flash drive.
can you still do this outside of the pc so i can use the hdd as backup in other pc
Thanks .
Sir I installed prime os in my pc but now I am not able to to use any one of the os what can I do
Thank you
I can’t get to the blue screen I got all the way up to the part where I remove the usb and put it in the computer I want wiped but my computer boots up normally. I looked online and I still can’t figure it out, I have a HP laptop
It is possible to use this method to get rid of my operating system because it prevents me to boot on Windows and the BSOD always popup every time I open my laptop, is this method of getting rid of my computer's hard drive will help or not?
Tank's . Ihave to clean unwanted grabege from time to time.
Best tutorial
My old Dell OptiPlex GX150 doesn't recognize the USB Thumb drive, when I go into the BIO's it doesn't show a option to boot to the usb drive. Only Hard Drive CD-ROM drive and Floppy Drive. I'm at a loss. I know you use to be able to put DBAN on a floppy disk which I did years ago, but don't see anything on the website to do that now.
You are so talkative!
Thanks Dave. Maybe a silly question but can I use the hard disk after this process? I plan to sell my laptop with a fresh install of windows after
how to get.bzi file extension, i don't have and i can't use dban, can you help
if I want to wipe multible old hard drives will this prpocess work I have external conectors
I am in the process of wiping right now. Dnb started without asking what drives to wipe. OK... My problem. But the thing is, the most important drive is already clean. But the second one is still running, because it's so big (1.5tb). Can I abort the process and wipe the second one with windows installation?
Sir Dave, thank you for the instructions. After DBAN I will install new windows, with the product key. By the way, can I normally format my memory stick?
Any idea why it won't boot from USB? I changed the boot priority to sandisk card with it installed but still just boots windows like normal
When I press F10 to start the wipe, nothing happens. Please help!
My laptop will not boot from the USB drive :-( I have a Dell Inspiron running Windows 10. Any tips?
“Access to the device is denied”.
What do?
i did a gutmann and for a month now ive tried putting back in AMD, Intel drivers but they wont load up? what am i doing wrong...i unchecked the box so all the drivers are available but all dont work and i cannot see any partition...
mine just went blank after i press enter any idea of what just happened?
What is the best way to replace a Hard Drive. No OS(Windows installed yet)
FOLLOWED YOUR INSRTUCTIONS TO THE LETTER,CHECKED SONY VIAO MODEL F11 KEY,BUT WHEN STARTED IT READS SYSTEM REPAIR (RECOMMENDED )
Hey Dave! Thanks so much for this tutorial! I would like to know if i can continue using the USB used to store DBAN as a normal USB after wiping my harddrive!
You just need to format it and it's ready
@@monkeh3612 If i put him in another pc it wont wipe it?
Hey can you tell us how install any os on a wiped hard drive done probably by dban
You have to put the os installer on a usb or cd, and boot from it
super helpfull
mine installed in rar file . pls help . i extracted it but there is no iso file
It did not work for me. I was not able to run the download to my usb per se but I was able to follow most of the steps. Upon inserting the usb in my old toshiba satellite XP laptop to erase the harddisk did not provide me the options you give in the video so I have no clue how I can wipe out my old harddisk on the old harddisk. Any suggestions?
thanks
hi my name is ram from india i having 500gb laptop hard disk efi partition unable to delete can u having any software for delete efi partition
How do you use dban on Mac using a windows keyboard?.
When I try to run to program I get this.......CAT: Can't Open" /prog/cmdline ' : no such file or directory
Great video Dave. After using Darik's Boot and Nuke, can the hard drive be hacked or read by a specialist? Thanks for your answer.
Yes, anything can be hacked, one of the best hackers of the world once said: "If you want to erase all your data and make unhackeable, take a bat and hit the device until you turn in to dust"
At 4:11 after its being loaded from usb, my screen gets dark can you please help
I have a computer from a company .I can't able to change password by CMD .how can I erase all data