Disk wipe with DBAN doesn't seem to work

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    I wiped my Internal HDD using DBAN ISO disk twice in Autonuke mode but my XP OS is still there and booting. What could be hapenning?
     
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    did you ensure that the correct drive was being wiped, you can use the interactive mode to see what drives are attached.
     
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    First I tried the 'Autonuke' because I had nothing connected to the computer. It was completely wiping the 'C' Drive. Then I tried the Interactive Mode. Both times it finished in about 30 seconds and said "Completed without fatal error" and displayed error dev/sda, error dev/sdc and 3 more identical messages. Do you know what these errors are?

    Couldn't figure out what was wrong and used Minitool Partition Wizard portable in a USB and it is working fine. I am using Wiping Method DoD 5220.22-M. The partition it is wiping is 417 GB - Unallocated. Shows up as Logical Drive, whatever it means. After 17 hours it has done only 62% of the task and still running. Is it normal to take this long?
     
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    complete in 30 seconds?? mine is an 80gb drive and takes 3 hours.

    depends on the number of wipes, if DOD long it is 32 passes and can take awhile

    Did you burn the dban ISO to a cd, set bios to boot from cd and then run dban?
     
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    Yes, exactly what I did.
     
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    not sure then, I just used mine recently last month and it still works fine,

    it might be the iso was corrupted, try download from HERE and see if it works better
     
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    Thank you. I used Minitool and completed the job. Will download from your link for next time.
     
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    okey doke, :)
     
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