Okay. I want to completely wipe my HDD to do a clean reinstall of WinXP Home because my current install is kind of messed up after getting a virus, so I downloaded the .iso of DBAN and burned that to a CD. I shut down my PC, restarted it, plopped in the CD, and my PC booted from the CD. So I pressed F2 to learn more about DRAN, then I pressed Enter to continue. I was met with a screen for selecting what I wanted to wipe. I could choose either my hard drive or my only partition. I chose my hard drive assuming it would just wipe the partition the same.
However, the method I chose was DoD 5220-.22M (7 or 8 passes, not sure), not the default DoD Short (3 passes). Also, I told it to go through one round, as default. That sounds all good and well, but as of right now, it has been working for 3 and a half hours, but it's still writing pass 1 of 7, and the percent complete thing says only 00.85%. At this rate, it would take forever to finish, so I'm thinking this can't be set up right. Also, while my throughput started at something high, maybe around 40000 kB/s, it is now just above 1000 kB/s -- obviously not good. So, if something is wrong, how do I abort the wiping and try a different settinng without screwing things up?
My rig is in my sig.
Thanks.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
However, the method I chose was DoD 5220-.22M (7 or 8 passes, not sure), not the default DoD Short (3 passes). Also, I told it to go through one round, as default. That sounds all good and well, but as of right now, it has been working for 3 and a half hours, but it's still writing pass 1 of 7, and the percent complete thing says only 00.85%. At this rate, it would take forever to finish, so I'm thinking this can't be set up right. Also, while my throughput started at something high, maybe around 40000 kB/s, it is now just above 1000 kB/s -- obviously not good. So, if something is wrong, how do I abort the wiping and try a different settinng without screwing things up?
My rig is in my sig.
Thanks.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
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