I have a HP pavillion dv6 notebook that somebody gave me. It has Windows Vista installed on it, and somehow it got ruined. I don't know what actually happened, but Windows vista will not boot. It just hangs at the loading screen, which is why I want to format it. I burned dban 2.2.6 to a DVD and after inserting the disk it gave me this error: "error no config file found". I decided to try dban 1.0.7, and it did boot up, however after I typed "autonuke" it began running and shortly gave me this error: "DBAN finished with non-fatal errors This is usually caused by the disks with bad sectors send the log file with all support requests" I also tried dban 2.0.0, and it wouldn't even boot to the disk even though I have it set to in the BIOS. dban 1.0.6 gave me a similar "non-fatal error" message. Why isn't this working? I assume it's just because the hard drive is bad. Is there anything I can do?
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If your partition table is screwed up, it would cause some of the issues you stated in your question and may even cause your issues with DBAN. I would burn a GPartEd live CD and attempt to delete all of the partitions on the hard drive (this is easy to do in GPartEd). If this doesn't work, then you probably need a new hard drive.
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HP has a restore partition, I would Not format it, you can restore the PC to factory condition easily. Formatting will destroy this feature.
See this article
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00809678&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
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