I used DBAN to wipe the drive of a computer donatied to a non profit. The donor wants a report showing the drive was wiped. So after the wipe, I used the DBAN option to output the report to the USB stick. But when I check the USB stick on another computer (PC or MAC) it is now unformatted.
So I created another USB boot stick with DBAN. Confirmed it can be read on PC & MAC and then wiped the target machine again, and output the report to the USB stick. But when I check the USB stick on another computer (PC or MAC) it is now unformatted again! Tried this 3 times with no success.
Help!
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DBAN has not been supported for years. You should try ShredOS, it really is much better than DBAN. It's maintained, supports new hardware, has temperature monitoring, shows serial numbers, has Isaac random number generators that actually work (unlike DBAN). Boots UEFI & Bios, 32 bit & 64 bit, supports headless systems or systems with non working displays, is highly configurable, supports more methods than DBAN.
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I used DBAN to wipe the drive of a computer donatied to a non profit. The donor wants a report showing the drive was wiped. So after the wipe, I used the DBAN option to output the report to the USB stick. But when I check the USB stick on another computer (PC or MAC) it is now unformatted.
So I created another USB boot stick with DBAN. Confirmed it can be read on PC & MAC and then wiped the target machine again, and output the report to the USB stick. But when I check the USB stick on another computer (PC or MAC) it is now unformatted again! Tried this 3 times with no success.
Help!
DBAN has not been supported for years. You should try ShredOS, it really is much better than DBAN. It's maintained, supports new hardware, has temperature monitoring, shows serial numbers, has Isaac random number generators that actually work (unlike DBAN). Boots UEFI & Bios, 32 bit & 64 bit, supports headless systems or systems with non working displays, is highly configurable, supports more methods than DBAN.