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DBAN refuses to work

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Why won’t DBAN (Dereks Boot and Nuke) work on my Asus laptop? I’m booting from the USB the DBAN is on, and I put the usb as the first thingy in the boot menu but when I click on it, it literally does nothing. Someone said something about a possible security system that stops DBAN from working on an Asus laptop/windows? Help please.

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You need to contact the application author if it isn’t working properly. I have never heard of this program/application and if internet links start showing up, this thread will be shut down as SPAM. If there is a legitimate issue, it would help to know what specific error message, if any is showing up. You haven’t provided enough information for anyone to offer advice. We don’t even know what OS and/or version of the OS that you are using.

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DBAN (from dban.org) is a program to fully wipe a hard disk (not an SSD). And it comes as a bootable disk or stick, so with it’s own OS (which is some form of Linux), so it can wipe the disk Windows boots from also.

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I’m running on windows 11.

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Can you explain what “it” is that you click on? And what OS runs if you click on it: Windows or Linux? And how you made that USB DBAN is on?

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I made the DBAN usb with rufus. I’m running windows 11. I go to the boot menu, make sure my usb is the first option to boot, but for some reason the USB that should be showing up called DBAN is showing up called UEFI: USB Partition 1.

It shouldn’t do anything on that click.

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“I put the usb as the first thingy in the boot menu but when I click on it, it literally does nothing.”

It’s not a security thing. Booting from USB requires us to have a good bootable USB
PLUS set the PC to boot from USB or use the PC’s boot options which vary widely with make and model.

At this point I can’t tell what area is to be explored except no PC I’ve ever seen had me select the item in a BIOS SETUP, click that and boot.

Let’s get the PC’s make and model known so we can check out how to get to the boot device selection menu next time.

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Asus computer is all I know, i threw away the box. Guess I’ll try to figure out how to boot properly cause I guess I’m not.

I’ve lost count of how many bootable USB sticks made with RUFUS

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That don’t work.

How do you know this stick works or boots?

Again, the way you wrote the problem above, that’s not how we boot from USB. Asus has an article at https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1013017/ but as they have thousands of models you often find yourself trying one method after another for that make.

Again, how do you know you have a good bootable DBAN USB stick?

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Yeah I didn’t know that. I’m not some tech expert so I don’t know things like that. I’m using a USB called sandisk and according to google “You can make SanDisk USB drive bootable via two ways, Windows built-in Diskpart and SanDisk bootable USB software AOMEI Partition Assistant.”

At some point.

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It’s either a non-bootable drive or you don’t know how to boot from USB. The ASUS link should help but without a full model number I can’t see if there’s a shorter version.

Folk that don’t make bootable USB sticks all too often make bad ones.

Also, I’m going to write it’s false that one can make a bootable USB stick with diskpart. Yes, I’m reading https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/install/create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive but no, no one I know has made that work.

Stick with Rufus and have someone test that this stick boots on other PCs.

Re: alternative to RUFUS

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Find an external CD- or DVD-drive (if your laptop doesn’t have an internal one) and use a program like imgburn to burn the iso-file you downloaded to a CD or DVD. Then boot from that.

I continue to find folk

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Burning the ISO to the CD/DVD and you see the dban.iso file on the media.

Because of this I write “create the CD/DVD from the ISO.” I use CDBurnerXP or ImgBrn from ninite.com.

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