Hard drive file recovery How to recover files after Dban

What is DBAN?

Dban is a free data wiping software for you to erase all the files on your hard drive. It is short for Darlik's Boot And Nuke. Its strong wiping capacity enables it effectively remover the virus and malware from the hard drive. Generally people use this software when they are planning to sell their computer or destroy the hard drive so that the data cannot be recover. However, people may use the DBAN by mistake. So if we have accidentally run the Dban program, how can you recover the lost files?

How to erase hard drive with DBAN?

First, we need to know how to erase the hard drive by using Dban.

Download the Dban software from the website, copy it to your U disk or disc.

Insert the disc or U disk into the computer, and boot from this U disk or disc.

Then you will see the DBAN screen, choose an option with the keyboard.

Press F3 to come to the quick commands

Press F1 to erase your hard drive.

Choose the drive partition you need to wipe.

Start the Dban and waif for the process ends.

Can you recover data after Dban?

If you run the Dban program by mistake, you should try to interrupt this process once you find this mistake. The files wiped by Dban cannot be recovered. If you have no backups, you cannot recover your data after wiping by DBAN. Therefore, the only way is to interrupt the Dban’s running as soon as possible to reduce the data loss. If you try to use a data recovery software, you may recover some of your data.

How to recover lost files with data recovery software?

Hdata recovery software helps you to recover lost or deleted files from the hard drive partitions. If you accidentally run the Dban software, and you interrupt the running as soon as you can, you can try to restore your lose files from the hard drive.

First, download the Hdata recovery software, choose the mode of “Deleted your files accidentally”

Second, choose the partition you have a data loss.

Third, run this partition and perform a scan.

Fourth, preview the scanning results and choose a recovery path to save the data.

Dban is a software designed to completely wipe hard drive so that data become unrecoverable. Therefore, you should need to be careful to run it. Once accident happen, you should stop the running of Dban at the first time. If the Dban has finished its wiping, you can never recover your files unless there is a backup. So backup is the best way to recover files. Form a good habit of data recovery is necessary.