Note that, if you boot up DBAN off a USB hard drive, select autonuke option would wipe out all drives the program finds, including the USB drive. Now, plug in the USB drive into the computer you want to wipe out and boot it up. One minute or two later, a bootable USB drive with DBAN in it has been successfully created. 4) Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. 2) Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press Enter. Click on Create button to start building the USB drive. 1) Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port. There may be other reasons that urge you to restore USB drive to the original state. Similarly, if you want to restore bootable USB to normal, you can just format USB drives. Select DBAN 2.2.6 from the dropdown list, and pick the drive letter for the USB drive.Ĥ. If you want to restore USB drive back to full capacity, you just need to delete files in the USB flash device. Download (direct download link) Universal USB Installer, and launch it.ģ.

It works great, just as it promises, on any computers that equip a CD/DVD Rom devices.īut what about those computers that don’t have a CD/DVD Rom or have one that refuses to work anymore? Here are the steps how you can put DBAN on a boot-able USB drive.

Run Universal USB Installer, select DBAN from. It’s a self-contained boot disk that boots up your computer and wipes out the data it finds on the hard drive. Make a bootable USB flash drive to wipe an old hard drive Insert a USB flash drive with 32MB+ available space. DBAN is a very efficient data wipe-out tool that completely removes your data on a hard drive you are about to dispose. TUTORIAL: How to remove/delete the partition from USB drive/Pen drive windows 10/8/7/11 or how to reset USB flash drive/pen drive using CMD/PowerShell on Win.

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