dban

[Stephen M]

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 at 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:
>
>   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.
>
>  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.
>
>  Any suggestions?
>
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