[SOLVED] Reuse USB drive after burning DBAN onto it

Oct 25, 2021
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Hi there.
Burned DBAN onto USB stick on main computer.
It successfully wiped the HDD in old laptop.
While Windows is already running, is there any danger inserting this back into my main computer to reformat it for normal use again? Or is it a simple reformat?

Thanks for reading
 
Solution
DBAN runs from BIOS, not from Windows. It's fine to plug the USB in in normal operation as you'd also have to execute/start it - which you can only do from boot, not from in Windows.