I've got 2 WD 3.5" hard drives that were removed from my Synology NAS and would like to wipe them before selling/giving away. I have done drive wipes in the past with utilities like DBAN but for some reason I am struggling now!
I have an external drive adaptor that connects to my laptop via USB. I can see the drive in Windows disk management - it shows as Disk 1 with 5 partitions: 3x Healthy (primary partition) and 3x Unallocated. These don't show up in Windows Explorer (no surprise) or Diskpart.
My plan was to create a bootable USB of DBAN but I cannot for the life of me get my laptop to boot the USB. I've tried changing BIOS boot options etc but no luck no matter what I try.
Have tried downloading the WD drive utility but it won't let me do anything with what it sees as an external USB drive.
I have an external drive adaptor that connects to my laptop via USB. I can see the drive in Windows disk management - it shows as Disk 1 with 5 partitions: 3x Healthy (primary partition) and 3x Unallocated. These don't show up in Windows Explorer (no surprise) or Diskpart.
My plan was to create a bootable USB of DBAN but I cannot for the life of me get my laptop to boot the USB. I've tried changing BIOS boot options etc but no luck no matter what I try.
Have tried downloading the WD drive utility but it won't let me do anything with what it sees as an external USB drive.
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