{"id":3625,"date":"2021-11-04T13:18:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3625"},"modified":"2021-11-04T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:18:54","slug":"solved-does-using-dban-render-hard-drive-unusable","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-xp\/does-using-dban-render-hard-drive-unusable\/202742.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Does Using DBAN Render Hard Drive Unusable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have used DBAN to nuke drives before getting ridding of them of them for recycle. My question is after using DBAN, can the drive still be used to reinstall windows. I have a computer that is very slow, even after reinstaling windiws, so I was thinking of nuking the drive first, and then trying to reinstall to see if it makes any difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":0},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}