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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.

In both cases, you can easily create a bootable DBAN USB thumb drive and boot from this USB drive to wipe your hard disk.

Also many people do not have the optical drives in their computer. But many people do not like to boot from the CD, because CDs are slower compared to USB drives. This requires burning the downloaded ISO disk image onto a blank CD and booting off this DBAN CD.

#UNIVERSAL USB INSTALLER NOT FINDING ISO DBAN HOW TO#

Universal USB Installer at this moment does not support installing and booting from multiple Linux Distributions, but the developer’s are promising addition of this feature soon.We have previously covered an article on how to wipe your hard disk using the Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) CD.

#UNIVERSAL USB INSTALLER NOT FINDING ISO DBAN INSTALL#

If you run Universal USB Installer from the same directory containing an installable ISO, the script will auto-detect the ISO and install it on your flash drive.

Simply choose any one of the Live Linux distribution ISO file that is now supported by it, grab your USB flash drive and, click on Install. The Universal USB Installer is very easy to use.

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It even supports Dr.Web Live CD Scanner, SliTaZ Cooking, Ultimate Boot CD, and more. The updated full list of supported distribution is available at the developer’s page. Universal USB Installer at this moments supports a huge number of Linux distributions, including both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and sysadmin or technicians favorites like Backtrack, GParted, DBAN, Clonezilla, OphCrack, System Rescue CD, etc to name a few. What I meant when I said “persistent storage”? It means that you’ll actually have some permanent storage space in your flash drive to save things like your files and preferences, instead of having a clone of your disc image in your flash drive. In my previous articles, I covered two softwares, UNetbootin and Multiboot USB Menu that helps me to make the distros ready to be booted directly off my USB flash device.Īnother, very good utility that helps me create persistent storage on my flash drive is Pendrive Linux’s Universal USB Installer. This saves me time as I don’t have to first configure the virtual machine and install the Linux distros to test it. But for those Linux distributions that offers Live CD/DVD option, I use my USB flash drive to test them live. Most of the time, to test the other operating system and distributions, I use VirtualBox or VMware Player to virtualize them.

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I triple boot my system with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu but I also like to test other Linux distributions.