How to wipe a hard drive

[floridajerseyguy]

I assume the PC is clean, it is summer now and fur coats are out anyways.

The last thing is the PSU. If you have access to a Digital multimeter, you can probe the 24 pin wires or molex connection to see what the actual 12V, 3.3V, and 5V rails are pushing.

I don't know about summer and fur coats- do you mean dust?
hardware is fine i think. Could not get mem test 86 to work.
Downloaded it from a site and could not get that iso to install. Don't have digi multimeter.

 

[floridajerseyguy]

use DBAN only ,i had the same problem with killdisk.Is not necessary to wipe all the drive ,only boot sector is needed (wait 2~%).
check list:
-Verify again if all cable are correctly plugged
-disconnect the floppy drive and unneeded hard drive if you have more than one
-after wiping is completed (or only2~% ) ,power off the computer to force the hard drive to stop
-intall xp with another CD-ROM drive if is possible.
luke!!


follow sneekypeet's intructions first.

modder I already used kill-disk. The deletion is done, I need to reinstall everything.

 

[floridajerseyguy]

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I boot computer... Black screen

1.) I hit delete > I get the bios loading info but bios never loads

2.) I hit f2 for setup menu > blue screen menu's with all components and settings > leave there and reboot

3.) I hit f12 for boot menu > hard drive diag disabled > cd won't boot mem test on iso cd

4.) I let it boot up with no interferance > nothing happens