computer's speakers got louder (same settings)

There has to be at least one partition, even if it take up the whole disk. Then it must be formatted.

 

well yes i only have 1 partition on my 1 500gb(techiincally 465gb) harddrive. when i was reinstalling windows instead of clicking format i clicked delete partition and then my only options were create a new partition or click next. since i just want 1 partition i just clicked next and it installed windows. should i have clicked format instead? please answer this question

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but as of right now im typing from a second computer and using dban beta (one that finally works) on my main computer using DoD 7 pass. this is overkill and its gonna take around 12 hours i think i shouldve just done autonuke.lol

 

but iremember when i first built my copmuter it dindt have anykind of audio when i first installed windows, thats why when i just deleted the partition and i still had audio after reinstalling windows vista 64bit it diidnt feel like i reformatted. thats why im using dban autonuke. this should take care of that right?(wanna start from a clean slate

 

Take care of it? You have not convinced me you have a problem to take care of. As I said earlier,

A format is not a cure-all. In fact, it often does not fix anything because the same piece of hardware causing problems is still there, or the same bad driver is reinstalled. Or because the user never learns what was wrong, so breaks it again the same way. DBAN is to keep bad guys from finding your old data. You don't need DBAN to keep Windows from accidentally finding it, nor does DBAN remove rootkits or other data you think might be interfering here.

I have no guidance to offer from here.