dban

[Michael Torres]

I am not trying one bit to sound arrogant or sarcastic, but have you tried
to reset BIOS? or Re-order the boot order?

Mike

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 at 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 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?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stephen Melheim
>>> 602-400-7707
>>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>
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>>
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>> 602-400-7707
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>>
>
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