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October 25th, 2009 20:00

XPS 420, unable to wipe hard drive

I have an XPS 420, and I am trying to wipe the hard drive using DBAN among other software.

I have a Seagate 320GB HD (model: st3320620as). When I go to launch DBAN I can get into interactive mode and it goes to wipe and immediately pops up with DBAN has closed with non-fatal errors. 

I loaded up Ultimate Boot CD and I have tried every single Wiping tool in the collection with no luck. They all fail trying to wipe it, one of them saying there is an error on the HD, and the others just stalling and never progressing past 0%.

I have ran Seatools, and many other diagnostic programs on the hard drive, thinking it could be a failing. All of the tests come back normal with no bad sectors.

Any help trying to figure out how to wipe this drive, and figure out what is going on would be great. 

This is a stock XPS 420 that I bought in a package through a retail store. I can post up more specs if necessary. I am running BIOS A07, the latest.

 

Thanks!

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