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Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe
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just tried this on my Intel sandy bridge server board and the OS went to sleep... #10

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

as above. I do not know the progress of the wipe and I have a feeling it's not doing anything as l cannot hear any activity on the HDD.

some info:

  1. I'm on a mac when I created the bootable USB
  2. Booted using BIOS instead of UEFI

Thank you.

PartialVolume commented 4 years ago

Can you post a photo of the screen ? i.e. did the drive/s appear, did you select it for wiping and then start the wipe. From the photo I can then see what part of the program you are at.

ghost commented 4 years ago

Nothing to see as the screen is blank. But I was able to select the drives that needs to be wiped and then I started it. An hour later when I checked on the machine, all I got is a blank screen. The PC wouldn’t respond to keyboard input.

PartialVolume commented 4 years ago

Is it reproducible? Very strange that the whole screen is blank. No chance the blank screen key got inadvertently pressed? I don't remember whether you have to press the B key or any key to bring the screen back from blank mode. Just wondering if that was the case. Of course if you could hear no disc activity it would also mean the wipe would have finished by the time you got back to check it out. What size drive were you wiping?

PartialVolume commented 4 years ago

No chance the blank screen key got inadvertently pressed? I don't remember whether you have to press the B key or any key to bring the screen back from blank mode.

Forget what I said above, I just checked and if you have blanked the screen with the 'B' key, then pressing any key should bring the screen back. So unlilkely to be that.

PartialVolume commented 4 years ago

Not much help to you, but I have discovered a bug with the status bar. After starting the wipe the existing status bar content should be replaced with B=Blank screen Ctrl-C=Quit. I'll open an issue for that with nwipe and fix it.

ghost commented 4 years ago

I was wiping 3x 2TB HDDs so it’ll take more than 2 hours to finish it. I doubt it was complete

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Is it reproducible? Very strange that the whole screen is blank. No chance the blank screen key got inadvertently pressed? I don't remember whether you have to press the B key or any key to bring the screen back from blank mode. Just wondering if that was the case. Of course if you could hear no disc activity it would also mean the wipe would have finished by the time you got back to check it out. What size drive were you wiping?

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PartialVolume commented 2 years ago

Any chance it was related to this #64 as it sounds like similar symptoms. Related to a specific monitor and setting in the monitor setup.