Hi all, My harddrive recently started to die and now I'm being sent a new one in return for the dying one. I'm trying to wipe it as I have a lot of details stored on the thing (order forms mainly) and don't want my details robbed. I've been trying to make a bootable CD with Dariks Boot and Nuke but failed everytime. I followed these instructions to the letter and still no luck. Instructions ---------- http://www.dban.org/faq/CDBurnerXP.html When I get to the stage of burning the info onto the CD I get the following message - 'Write error 8 Media Format Not Supported'. The burner I'm using is the CDBurnerXP (the one reccomended in the instructions), it says it is meant for .ISO files but won't burn this for me Could one of you clever bunch once again come to my rescue? Any help will be marvellous. Thanks
Make sure you're using the correct disk type (CD, rather than DVD), as that could be the problem. You might also try the excellent ImgBurn instead of the program you've been using.
download the manufactures live cd and they normally have the low level format software built in but be warned this can take some time upto 24 hours
Format it. All you need. I mean, it is not as if the company is going to bother doing some deep data mining. Else check with the company if you can simply destroy the drive (drop it a few times) and return the bits.
Thermite Excessive? Bah, hardly excessive enough if you ask me, didn't you hear the man? He has forms on there... FORMS!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCWLpRc1yM
I would hope the OP will have managed to do something with the HDD, in the 5 weeks it's been since the thread was started
Hard drive fought back. I should have gotten here sooner. I heard the call of the Hard drive, but i dismissed it. I have been hunting for this hard drive for 3 years. Its the fabled D3V-1L Make of Hard drive. Its one of the hardest, toughest, meanest, fastest hard drives around. I guess it fought back. I would have told him to get a silver chainsaw. *
Yeah, amateurs. They always forget about the Dho-Na containment circuit pentagram and the ritual incantation program that must be running as a background task. Blood sacrifice helps as well to ground the portal. Don't try this at home without asking professional advice on these forums...
Aye, what a noob, indeed. Although, a Containment Repair Actuation for Protons would do the job just the same.
Absolutely. I mean, it's obvious isn't it, you have to have some form of quantum probability limiter/collapse field with such a large release of uncontrolled energy consequent to massively accelerated entropy involved in destroying large complex information pattens, such as wiping a hard disk! People think it is all just a matter of typing: "Format C:". If only they knew. Before they realise it, they punch a hole in the N-space continuum and get their soul sucked out by a hard disk that is suddenly invaded by the Unnamed from the Shadow dimensions. I shudder to think how many people casually flirt with that fate every day. And a D3V-1L? Don't get me started on that. I wouldn't let one within miles of a halfway functional computer without a six-seal incursion protection array and a live tissue sacrifice grounding circuit.
