Can I erase everything?

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jeremy edwards

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Hey everyone, so I am running my operating system (Windows 8.1) on a Samsung EVO and I also have an intel ssd which used to have my operating system. So I was going through a phase and I deleted and clean installed windows about 7 or 8 times over the course of about 2 weeks. I have 5 hard drives including the two ssds. Now, im having registry issues that can't be fixed, including 0xc000007b and other issues and I really want to start over fresh. It appears as though no matter what I do there seems to always be some kind of recovery partition that just restores my windows settings even after a clean install. Is there anyway to delete/format this so that I can install windows as though no system has ever been installed before? Sometimes when I power up my PC it shows me all the previous windows I have installed and I'd really like to just set everything back to zero. Thanks in advance.

P.S. I run an Asus Maximus VI Extreme mobo with UEFI Bios and SSD Secure Erase has not helped with this.
 
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You may have written on your SSD too much data at this point, and it has begun to have unrecoverable sectors. I know Samsung has Samsung Magician, download and run that to check the health of your EVO.
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You may have written on your SSD too much data at this point, and it has begun to have unrecoverable sectors. I know Samsung has Samsung Magician, download and run that to check the health of your EVO.
 
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Wow thanks for the awesome insight on that program, I had no idea. However, I ran the check and my drive is in good health. I really just want to delete all records of data on SSD. I have all data backed up across 4 other hard drives. I just cant seem to figure out how to reset the drive to factory with no data.
 
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It seems to me that what you want to do is to connect your SSD to another computer (either internally or externally) and format your SSD. You should do a regular format (not a quick format). A regular format takes longer but will write all zeroes to your SSD. When you have finished formatting, put the SSD back in your original computer and install Windows.
 
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