This might seem odd. But is there a chance that dban messed with my BIOS firmware? I am having trouble loading even a live CD. BIOS doesn't always work but computer will boot into EFI. I know it sounds strange but thats the only thing I can think of. If it was just the drives than I would just assume the boot sector might have been messed up. But when I try to boot into a live CD it will only do it through EFI. The same thing happens when I try a live USB. I know it works on legacy BIOS because my laptop sees it right away.Just wanted to know whats the best course of action. The BIOS is HP and from their website it should be the most current version.On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85@gmail.com> wrote:Ok, well at this point I should be able to get a program to rewrite the boot sector so I can setup an OS on the drives. So that is what I am looking for something that will help on that respect. I am that the creators of dban would not make a program that would wipe a disk completely so that you can never use it again.On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:It sounds like it wiped at least the boot sector, and probably a good chunk of your os disk as an unintended victim. Hate to say it, but never used dban, so not sure if it's a glitch or just meant to blatantly wipe *everything* in a system. Sounds like the later...
If so, you're likely a bit (or lot) hozed. If you know the geometry of the disk partitions, you can maybe recreate the partitions and access some of your data, but seeing as you're now missing contiguous chunks of disks, my guess is unless you're using forensics tools, you're not going to get at it.
-mb
On 12/15/2014 02:26 PM, Stephen M wrote:
Any suggestions?I've already tried to use a live CD to correct the problem and I have an OS on one of my drive. But the computer won't load into and says it can't find a bootable disk. I am sure that one of the disk as an OS on it. When I use a live USB it won't load. But I use it on my laptop and it works just fine.Hi everyone,I need help again with my computer. I am not sure what happened, but ever since I used dban to erase one HDD connected through a usb adapter my desktop doesn't want to load an OS. It was working fine until dban started to erase the entire disk. I stopped it before it could get too far. Now when I try to boot into either of my disks it doesn't see them.
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