Wiping the whole hard drive blank

eddie999
eddie999 Member Posts: 1 New User
edited August 2023 in 2018 Archives

how do i wipe the hard drive, i have windows 10

 

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  • brummyfan2
    brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,701 Trailblazer

    Hi,

    You can use Parted Magic to secure erase the drive:https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-securely-erase-an-ssd-drive/

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/parted_magic.html

    Acer Predator PT516-51s Performance Results - UserBenchmark

  • FreeBSD
    FreeBSD Member Posts: 11 New User

    If you would like to wipe only the free place  of the HDD and leave the already installed system in safe than I can offer you the CCleaner-tools-volume cleaner (you can choose some different method from the one times overwrite to the Gutman 35times overwrite).

    If you would like to wipe all the volume or HDD than I can offer the live cd of the Partition Wizard Free edition.You can start it in legacy BIOS mode or in UEFI mode without safeboot mode.

    Sorry on my E17 machine Can't start this simple distro (and a lot of other) because the Acer making mostly windows machines :-)

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,412 Trailblazer

    if you have a windows 10 installation media, just boot from it and at language selection press Shift+F10 keys, a command prompt will appear, then type

     

    diskpart

    select disk 0 (if your system has only one HDD)

    clear all (this will completly erase the HDD, it will take some hours)

     

    once done type exit and shutdown your pc or continue to install.

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • AJBAJA
    AJBAJA Member Posts: 15 Troubleshooter
    ACER ASPIRE Z 3770 v.P03-A2
    Hi, yday I did a wipe out after difficulties with an Ubuntu partition, now I have a bios that does not show the hard drive at all...not trying to rescue data, just to use hard drive for a linux OS

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