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how do you wipe a hard drive? by ss2005 on 12-31-2005 at 02:18 PM
how do you wipe a hard drive of everything?
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by Supersonicdarky on 12-31-2005 at 02:38 PM
either Dban - Whipes all drives clean
or insert your windows cd, reboot and choose format (if you want to format the drive with windows on it)
or if windows isn't installed on it, in my computer right click the drive, format
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by RaceProUK on 12-31-2005 at 02:44 PM
What drive to you want to wipe? If it's not the Windows one, just right-click the drive in Explorer and choose Format. If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by ss2005 on 12-31-2005 at 02:45 PM
cheers guys
RE: RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by Supersonicdarky on 12-31-2005 at 02:57 PM
quote:thats exactly what i said
Originally posted by raceprouk
What drive to you want to wipe? If it's not the Windows one, just right-click the drive in Explorer and choose Format. If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by Jhrono on 12-31-2005 at 02:59 PM
quote:Not necessarly if you don't want to install windows again, i guess
Originally posted by raceprouk
If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by Supersonicdarky on 12-31-2005 at 03:01 PM
you can use the windows cd to format, but then cancel the installation
i forget how it's done because i haven't formatted in a while
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by RaceProUK on 12-31-2005 at 03:01 PM
quote:I know: I posted parallel to you
Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
thats exactly what i said
quote:True, but most do.
Originally posted by Johny
quote:Not necessarly if you don't want to install windows again, i guess
Originally posted by raceprouk
If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
quote:Or use the Recovery Console.
Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
you can use the windows cd to format, but then cancel the installation
i forget how it's done because i haven't formatted in a while
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by DJKAL on 12-31-2005 at 03:51 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
either Dban - Whipes all drives clean
is there anyway to confine that 1 just one drive?
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by Supersonicdarky on 12-31-2005 at 04:14 PM
i dont think so, but if you want to wipe the windows drive and leave the other one, just disconnect the drives that you don't want cleaned until its done, then reconnect
RE: how do you wipe a hard drive? by DJKAL on 12-31-2005 at 04:14 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
i dont think so, but if you want to wipe the windows drive and leave the other one, just disconnect the drives that you don't want cleaned until its done, then reconnect
thanks