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So what if you don’t have a CD/DVD drive, or the computer simply won’t boot from CD? Well, the following instructions will step you through how to make a DBAN USB flash drive to boot from, instead of from the CD.

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DBAN can be downloaded from and is simple to use, but the download is a bootable CD image. This is a good thing to ensure no personal data can be recovered from the drive after disposal. See also Create a disk image using Disk Utility on Mac. Repeat steps 35 for each remaining partition. Steps to clone your Mac with Disk Utility: Open Disk Utility. Also, note that the restore feature works with any storage device that can be mounted on your Mac, including disk images, hard drives, SSD, and USB drives.

Restore from a disk image: Click Image, choose the disk image you want to copy, then click Open. In Disk Utility, this option is called Restore, just like recovering your data from a source disk to a target disk. You may have heard of a utility called DBAN (Darik’s Boot and Nuke) that will permanently wipe all the data from a hard drive before you recycle or dispose of it. Do one of the following: Restore from a volume: Click the Restore from pop-up menu, then choose the volume you want to copy. At the DBAN menu, type “autonuke” and let it run!.Please confirm one last time that you are good with the USB being over-written. Press OK once you are sure you have the right image file. The Restore Disk Image to Drive window opens. Disk Utility Erase your USB Flash Drive for macOS 12 installer.

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Once the USB conversion is complete, restart the computer, and from the boot menu (see computer manufacturer’s instructions for how to select a boot device), boot from the USB device. From the dropdown menu, choose the Restore with Disk Image selection. Download macOS, Erase USB Disk, Install to USB - Done in 5 min.

A consequence of this enhancement is that some programs, like parted get confused about the drive's format and partition table, printing warnings such as.

Run Universal USB Installer, select “DBAN” from the drop down list, and follow the onscreen instructions. Ubuntu images (and potentially some other related GNU/Linux distributions) have a peculiar format that allows the image to boot without any further modification from both CDs and USB drives.

Download the Universal USB-Installer, which converts the *.iso image to USB flash.

Insert a USB flash drive with 32MB+ available space.

To use a USB to wipe an old hard drive on a Windows PC: Make a bootable USB flash drive to wipe an old hard drive