Re: Clearing Old PC's




Adam Funk wrote:

Stefan Patric wrote:

DBAN -- Darik's Boot and Nuke. It's the standard way to do this.

Does anyone know if this will work to wipe a SATA drive connected to a
PCI SATA card which is plugged into a motherboard that has IDE jacks but
no IDE drives connected?

Why don't you just boot the DBAN disk and see?

I haven't bought the PCI SATA card yet!

It may not boot at all. It all depends on whether the BIOS
is capable of seeing and booting to that configuration.

Worst case, put in a small/cheap IDE drive to boot off of.

--
Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com/>


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