Free HDD wipe? DBAN?

Paul11 · 23 Nov 2011 at 10:00

if you have more than one hard drive attached, does it ask you which HD you want to wipe?

CaptainCrash · 23 Nov 2011 at 10:01

Dano said:
I once tried Piriform's disk wipe that is available in ccleaner, then ran recuva on the drive, it got everything back lol

Either the program was buggy/non-functional and didn't do what it claimed to do, or you were using it wrong.

Dano · 23 Nov 2011 at 10:02

CaptainCrash said:
Either the program was buggy/non-functional and didn't do what it claimed to do, or you were using it wrong.

Any or all of the above

CaptainCrash · 23 Nov 2011 at 10:06

Paul11 said:
if you have more than one hard drive attached, does it ask you which HD you want to wipe?

You can select specific hard drives, but the program doesn't understand the concept of "oops, I didn't mean to do that", and it's a *very* good idea to disconnect anything you don't want wiped.

Paul11 · 23 Nov 2011 at 10:11

CaptainCrash said:
You can select specific hard drives, but the program doesn't understand the concept of "oops, I didn't mean to do that", and it's a *very* good idea to disconnect anything you don't want wiped.

good thinking..

dangermouse425 · 23 Nov 2011 at 11:12

CaptainCrash said:
You can select specific hard drives, but the program doesn't understand the concept of "oops, I didn't mean to do that", and it's a *very* good idea to disconnect anything you don't want wiped.

Seconded, I've not mistakenly erased the wrong HDD, yet! But the day will surely come...

On topic, DBAN works fine for me!