Ghost Solution Suite

Hello,

My company uses GDISK (the DOS version) for the secure wiping of PCs (using the DOD 7-pass method). This was booted from a DOS based floppy disk from a USB floppy drive until recently.

We've recently created some bootable flash drives using FreeDOS and have tried to get GDISK running from there. The program runs OK and wipes the disk with the counter steadily going up to 100%, but then it sits still for hours on end doing seemingly northing before eventually displaying the partition status screen and terminating.

As this is run from a batch script that calls it several times to wipe multiple drives, this delay is causing us issues.

Is there a reason as to why GDISK would freeze like this at the end of the wipe, and what can we do to rectify it?

Thank you.

Dave.

What happens if you create a bootable USB stick using regular DOS ?  At the moment you have a situation where you have introduced multiple variables into your situation and any one of them could be responsible.

What result do you get using Freedos from a USB floppy drive?  That just changes one parameter.

If posting again, it will be helpful to see what is in your config.sys and autoexec.bat files.

Finally, are you using GDISK on systems with SATA hard disks?  If so, have you switched the hard disk section of the bios to "compatibility mode" ?

Looks like it was FreeDOS that was causing the issue. I've re-built the flash drive using MS-DOS (the Windows ME version) and GDISK is no longer freezing upon completion.

Thanks!

Glad it's working now.