Nov 26, 2011 - DBAN is a bootable CD that will launch before windows ever loads. Make sure you have a Windows Vista installation CD before you wipe your.
Contents. It’s recommended to use this utility when your computer shows various boot errors. The check disk utility can be run if you need a fix for the following errors:.
and others The check disk utility can repair problems such as:. bad sectors.
lost clusters. cross-linked files. directory errors Screenshots The check disk tool can be run via Command Prompt or, if you can boot into Windows from My Computer Properties Tools depending on the Windows version you installed on your PC. The command line tool can be ran on a Windows XP computer from within the Windows XP Recovery Console: The utility from within Windows XP, from My Computer and not Command Prompt: This is how you start a scan with the disk utility if you can boot into Windows Vista: How to run CHKDSK in Windows This utility is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1.
If you can boot into Windows, you can run the check disk utility on each hard drive or partition you have available in My Computer. If you can’t boot the operating system, you can run the tool from Command Prompt either by booting your computer into the Recovery Mode or by using the original installation disc to run Command Prompt. CHKDSK in Windows XP If you can boot into Windows XP, you can run the utility either from the Command Prompt or from My Computer. From Command Prompt If you can’t boot into Windows XP to run chkdsk, – our recovery disk for Windows XP – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly. You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs. To run the utility from the Command Prompt, follow these steps:.
Boot your computer. Go to Start.
Click Run. Type cmd in the box.
Press Enter. You can now type chkdsk to open the utility in a read-only mode. Press Enter.
To repair errors, follow these instructions:. To repair errors without scanning for any bad sectors, type chkdsk volume: /f and press Enter, where volume is the letter of the drive you’d like to run a scan for, e.g. C: or D:Example of a command you need to type if your volume is C: chkdsk C: /f. To repair errors and scan for bad sectors, type chkdsk volume: /r and press Enter, where volume is the letter of the drive you’d like to repair, e.g. C: or D:Example of command you need to type if the volume you want to scan is D: chkdsk D: /r From My Computer If you can’t boot into Windows XP to run chkdsk, – our recovery disk for Windows XP – and run Automated Repair or Command Prompt directly.
You can burn EasyRE on CDs, DVDs or USBs.
I'm preparing to sell a computer. It came with Windows 7 (no install disks). I want to wipe all my data in the most secure way possible, (not just remove links, but overwrite the drive). My goal is to ensure that I have removed any personal data and malware. I would like to use a tool like DBAN , but it says this will remove the recovery partition here. In that page, it also says ' If your laptop or desktop computer has a traditional magnetic hard drive, it’s possible for people to recover the data from the hard drive even after you reformat it and reinstall the operating system. This is because reinstalling the operating system won’t erase every sector of the disk.'
So, is it possible to both eliminate the possibilities of someone recovering my data and/or malware resurrecting itself, and still be able to install Windows without hassle afterwards? What would be the easiest way to accomplish this? PS: I believe I have malware that is preventing me from booting to Windows. I can boot from a Ubuntu USB. I would go about it this way:. Note down the Windows 7 product key from the sticker on your PC or use to recover it from your current installation. Download all the drivers you need for your system (most importantly LAN/WLAN drivers and chipset drivers) from the appropriate manufacturers website, and store them on a USB stick/external hard drive or burn them onto a CD.
Download a Windows 7 ISO from and burn it on a DVD or make a bootable USB stick, for example using. Run DBAN to completely erase any data on your disk. Re-install Windows using the DVD or USB you created in step 2. Install the drivers from the CD or USB you created in step 1. Run Windows Update to make sure your system has the available patches/hotfixes. Install whatever software you want on the PC.
You could skip step 7 and 8 if you want to cut down on time spent. Especially if you're selling the PC anyway. In your shoes I'd do a restore from the recovery partition on the disk disk, use that to create recovery disks then proceed further - this ensures it was worth keeping the recovery partition in the first place, and gives you breathing room if things go wrong.
You can always give the disks to the next owner. That opens up the option for dban or safely running shred on just the OS partition if you must. Chances are even a restore would probably irrecoverably overwrite the old partition. You can wipe the just the partition with from a linux liveusb. Check if can recover the original partition. Test with forensics software too if you can get your hands on it. Do your install once your sure and don't worry about it.
Modern drives are pretty horrid at retaining data once you have zeroed them out.