Some people mentioned that this stopped happening after they disabled the onboard card reader on their computer or booted from CD instead of USB. After doing some googling I found a thread with others that had the same problem. On the first attempt DBAN failed as soon as I started the wiping process with error messages like “Non fatal error” and “ERROR /dev/sdb (process crash)”. The “Hard Disk Drives” option will only be visible in the BIOS if the USB stick is inserted when entering BIOS.Īfter doing this I could boot from the USB stick and run DBAN. This can be done by making sure that the USB stick is inserted when starting the computer and entering BIOS, then go to to the “Boot” section and select the option “Hard Disk Drives” and there set the USB to be the first disk. There I set the computer to boot from USB instead of from the hard drive. Then I booted the eee pc and entered BIOS.

The first thing I did was to create a DBAN USB Flash Drive by following the steps I found at. Usually I just burn DBAN to a CD/DVD and boot from that, but the eee pc doesn’t have any CD/DVD, so in this case I had to boot from a usb stick instead. I have an old Asus Eee pc that I’m no longer using and want to get rid of, but before I can do that I wanted to wipe the hard drive using DBAN.

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