Click on the Create button at the bottom to start the USB creation process.

Please note that, formatting will erase all the exisiting content from the USB drive. If your selected USB drive is not FAT32/FAT16 formatted, then select the checkbox labeled something like Format X: Drive.

The inserted USB pen drive has to be FAT formatted, in order to make it bootable.

Lastly, select the USB pen drive letter from the list. Then click on the Browse button and choose the ISO disk image file that you downloaded in the step #1 above.

Choose DBAN 2.2.X from the drop-down listbox.

Run Universal USB Installer file that you downloaded in step #2 above.

It is better to backup the data on your USB drive before you use it for DBAN. The inserted USB pen drive must have at least 50 MB free on it.

Insert a USB pen drive and let Windows detect it.

The downloaded file is Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.2.7.exe at the time of writing this post.

Download Universal USB Installer from.

The file name can be different for newer versions, but it does not matter. At the time of writing this post, the downloaded file is dban-2.2.7_i586.iso.

Download the Darik’s Boot and Nuke ISO image from.

How to securely erase your old computer's hard drive - Duration: 6:15. Burn the ISO to CD or create a bootable USB stick and boot to DBAN.

Darik’s Boot And Nuke (DBAN) DBAN is a very well known and respected data wiping tool that runs from a bootable disc and is great for when you want to sanitize more than a single drive or system drive because it can automatically erase all found partitions.

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