How to Reset a Custom Built

willthenarwhal

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Ok I was wondering, how will I wipe the drives on this computer and re install windows/ of course I know how to do the latter but how do I wipe my ssd and hdd, its a maximus IX code z270. I want to completely restart the computer.
 
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I second Secure Erase. Note that this is not a utility or a product, it's an SATA command. It tells the drive to empty itself. A good hard drive will take hours to execute this command as it writes random garbage over every location several times. An SSD will execute it quickly and, most important, update its list of used blocks to show that all the blocks are free.

If you don't use this, you end up with an SSD badly in need of TRIMming, as it thinks that actually unused blocks are unavailable for writing.

Most boot CD environments will have a utility to issue the Secure Erase command.

USAFRet

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Well...the only real "DO NOT WIPE" is to not use DBAN.
As they prominently state on their website.
"Not for SSD's"

Format, Secure Erase from the manufacturer...whatever. Just not DBAN.
 
I second Secure Erase. Note that this is not a utility or a product, it's an SATA command. It tells the drive to empty itself. A good hard drive will take hours to execute this command as it writes random garbage over every location several times. An SSD will execute it quickly and, most important, update its list of used blocks to show that all the blocks are free.

If you don't use this, you end up with an SSD badly in need of TRIMming, as it thinks that actually unused blocks are unavailable for writing.

Most boot CD environments will have a utility to issue the Secure Erase command.
 
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