[camaroer87]

I used DBAN to wipe my hard drive and now want to reinstall XP. It runs through the blue screen setup and copies all of the files to the computer and restarts but it always gives me a disk read error.

I ran fixmbr and fixboot. That didn't work either.

I even tried installing a linux distro on it. It won't boot that either.

One thing I found interesting was once I ran through the blue screen windows setup after I did it the first time, the free space on the drive was still at maximum, like no files had been copied. When I tell it to install windows to that partition, it says that there is already a version of windows on there.

Did DBAN ruin something on the HD or how can I fix this?

[frankjohn]

Sounds like the drive wasent totally wiped [corrupted]

[camaroer87]

So is the drive done or how do I fix it?

[frankjohn]

I dont think the drive was wiped clean? Try it again and when loading the os when prompted to format dont do a quick format

[camaroer87]

I tried that too. But thanks for the suggestion.