
The inserted USB pen drive has to be FAT formatted, in order to make it bootable. Lastly, select the USB pen drive letter from the list. Then click on the Browse button and choose the ISO disk image file that you downloaded in the step #1 above. Choose DBAN 2.2.X from the drop-down listbox.
Run Universal USB Installer file that you downloaded in step #2 above. It is better to backup the data on your USB drive before you use it for DBAN. The inserted USB pen drive must have at least 50 MB free on it. Insert a USB pen drive and let Windows detect it. The downloaded file is Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.2.7.exe at the time of writing this post. Download Universal USB Installer from. The file name can be different for newer versions, but it does not matter. At the time of writing this post, the downloaded file is dban-2.2.7_i586.iso. Download the Darik’s Boot and Nuke ISO image from. and because it's filling the drive from start to finish it doesn't have the ability to ignore blocks leaving old data behind.You can easily create a bootable DBAN USB thumb drive and boot from this USB drive to wipe your hard disk. Shred is pretty good because after it writes a pass of random data (the n number is how many times) it then writes zeros that forces the drive to trim and erase the data. Note: DBAN will boot up and data erasing will start within 10 seconds without any prompt DBAN could need a driver for this computer However I was unable to erase data as DBan was unable to detect my SSD drive saying Error: Disks not found. This method eliminates sed fix and seems not causing dban can't open /proc/cmdline error when version v2.2.8 has been used. Your bootable DBAN usb stick is ready now. Sed -i 's/ubnkern/DBAN.BZI/g' syslinux.cfg Replace every occurrence of ubnkern with DBAN.BZI in the syslinux.cfg file Sed -i 's/ubninit/ISOLINUX.BIN/g' syslinux.cfg Mount USB, then replace every occurrence of ubninit with ISOLINUX.BIN in the syslinux.cfg file
Install DBAN on a USB flash drive using unetbootin
# | -n (optional) -n VOLUME-NAME, sets the volume name (label) of the filesystem # | -I forces mkfs.fat to work correctly allowing to create a filesystem across the entire device Sudo mkfs.exfat /dev/sdc1 -n 'Ubuntu20' # option 2 Sudo mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc1 -n 'Ubuntu20' # option 1 Install UNetbootin sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa