dban

[Stephen M]

Haven't tried to reset the BIOS but did try to change the boot order.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Michael Torres <matorres124 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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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>> Stephen Melheim
>> 602-400-7707
>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
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