Hello, recently upgraded my hardrive with SSD and I just swapped them out and reinstalled ect. All of my old windows and info is on my hardrive currently im gonna give the drive to my brother but first how do I wipe it clean with already having my ssd? Should I just slap it in and how would I wipe it clean?
How to wipe an old hardrive
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photonboy
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I have the ULTIMATEBOOTCD and there's an option in there to overwrite ZEROS. Here's how I do it:
1) Shut down PC and unhook all drives except the one to be low level formatted
2) Boot to Ultimatebootcd
3) Disk Wiping-> Choose ACTIVE KILL DISK FREE and overwrite with zeros
Other:
- The reason I prefer this method is to avoid accidentally wrecking the wrong drive.
- The drive may not appear under Windows if attached as a secondary drive so you'd have to go into DISK MANAGMENT to add it, and format it.
- Memtest86+ is also present and I use that periodically to test my DDR3 System Memory
1) Shut down PC and unhook all drives except the one to be low level formatted
2) Boot to Ultimatebootcd
3) Disk Wiping-> Choose ACTIVE KILL DISK FREE and overwrite with zeros
Other:
- The reason I prefer this method is to avoid accidentally wrecking the wrong drive.
- The drive may not appear under Windows if attached as a secondary drive so you'd have to go into DISK MANAGMENT to add it, and format it.
- Memtest86+ is also present and I use that periodically to test my DDR3 System Memory
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To wipe a drive with DBAN (assuming you don't have the ISO):
(1) Download the ISO here: http://www.dban.org/download
(2) Burn the ISO to a BLANK disc in the CD-ROM drive
(3) Power off the computer and unplug all drives EXCEPT the one to be wiped
(4) Power the computer back on and select the CD-ROM drive with the DBAN disc inserted
(5) Start DBAN in interactive mode and choose your settings and all that stuff and wipe away!
No offense, phototonboy.
(1) Download the ISO here: http://www.dban.org/download
(2) Burn the ISO to a BLANK disc in the CD-ROM drive
(3) Power off the computer and unplug all drives EXCEPT the one to be wiped
(4) Power the computer back on and select the CD-ROM drive with the DBAN disc inserted
(5) Start DBAN in interactive mode and choose your settings and all that stuff and wipe away!
No offense, phototonboy.
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