Hard drive not picking up in Dban

[Tommo791]

Hi,
I am selling my old pc to a friend and I am currently trying to wipe my harddrive
So far I have managed to transfer dban to my usb stick. However, when I boot from my usb stick and start up dban, my hdd is not recognised under discs and partitions, therefore I am not able to wipe it. Does anybody know how I am able to overcome this?

 

[Snortan]

Is the HDD recognized in BIOS?

 

[Feronix]

And what if you just boot into a Windows installer (where you can also partition hard drives), does it show up then?

PS Snortan, you spelled Enthoo wrong in your siggy?

 

[Tommo791]

How do I check if my bios recognises it?

 

[Feronix]

How do I check if my bios recognises it?

You.... you look in your bios and see if it's there

 

[Tommo791]

Sorry Feronix I'm not too sure what you mean :/ I'm new to all this partitioning business

Edit:
Oh ok I'll do that

Edit 2:
It is there in my bios although it still won't let me wipe hdd

 

[Dawelio]

Sorry Feronix I'm not too sure what you mean :/ I'm new to all this partitioning business

Oh ok I'll do that

It is there in my bios although it still won't let me wipe hdd

A future tip for you mate, don't double or triple post, use the edit button. Mods don't really like multi posting

 

[Tommo791]

I still can't seem to find my hdd in the partitions and disks section..

 

[Snortan]

PS Snortan, you spelled Enthoo wrong in your siggy?

Didn't notice that, thanks!

I still can't seem to find my hdd in the partitions and disks section..

Are you running RAID or AHCI? If I'm not mistaken DBN has some trouble recognizing drives sometimes under those configurations. Try to set the SATA controller in Bios to IDE.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

if you have a windows instalation disk around somewhere (or burn it on usb(is that correct?:s)) you can get into windows isntallation os (what ever that was called) and if you press shift + F10 you can format, clean, nuke w/e selected hard drives and partitions.

 

[Tommo791]

if you have a windows instalation disk around somewhere (or burn it on usb(is that correct?:s)) you can get into windows isntallation os (what ever that was called) and if you press shift + F10 you can format, clean, nuke w/e selected hard drives and partitions.

okay thanks I'll try that

~Posts merged~

Didn't notice that, thanks!

Are you running RAID or AHCI? If I'm not mistaken DBN has some trouble recognizing drives sometimes under those configurations. Try to set the SATA controller in Bios to IDE.

I'm not running raid but ill try that tomorrow, thanks