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It is possible to boot Blancco Drive Eraser on a machine that has UEFI with a bootable USB-stick.

Secure Boot can be enabled again, following the same logical steps.Exit the menu and select Save Changes and Exit.In the motherboard's UEFI firmware settings, go to the Security/Authentication (or similar) menu, select the Secure Boot option and disable it.The following steps will demonstrate how to enable or disable the Secure Boot in the PC's UEFI settings: Blancco Drive Eraser may not properly boot on a machine where the Secure Boot is enabled, in which case this feature has to be manually disabled. Secure boot is an UEFI feature that makes Windows 8 very resistant to low-level malware such as rootkits. The UEFI machine where Blancco Drive Eraser is booted has to be an x86 based system.ĭisabling the Secure Boot (required on versions older than v6.3.0) *:Īny PC with a Windows 8 logo sticker has a "Secure boot" enabled by default.Booting from a CD does not work properly, prefer instead booting with a bootable USB stick previously formatted with Blancco USB Creator. The USB Creator version has to be at least the 2.2.2 (or newer).Blancco Drive Eraser UEFI support (available from 5.4.x versions) requires some mandatory conditions: Blancco Drive Eraser may face some issues when booting on machines that use EFI/UEFI.