- Jan 7, 2013
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I have been trying to wipe an old crummy hard drive of mine from years ago. It has a certain Vista Install on it which Dell put into the Inspiron 531 line of PCs which removed all natural means of formatting the hard disk in Windows itself. The option to format does not exist even in the secret options of the boot menu and of course no options in windows while it is running. No other computers I own will read the hard disk when they are connected to it, so I cannot format the hard disk from another PC. Boot programs like DBAN on CDs and USBs fail to load when told to do so on the Vista. So I cannot wipe the hard drive in that way. The Vista installed on the hard drive still boots regularly so I know the drive itself is not broken, but I do not want vista. I want a blank hard disk on which I intend to install Windows 7.
Are there any absolutely 100% foolproof ways to wipe an old hard drive when all of the above options have failed?
Are there any absolutely 100% foolproof ways to wipe an old hard drive when all of the above options have failed?
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