Want to Keep partitions and formatting, just lose the data/info

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Disaster Recovery training. I have an old (Replaced) HP Proliant server and am trying to prepare for disaster recovery by practicing a restore of a server to it. The server already has all the partitions set up, it has the designations of the active and bootable partitions already set and waiting to go. Is there an alternative to Diskpart>clean that will allow me to keep the barebones formating? OS is Server 2012 R2.
 
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Diskpart clean cleans all the data from hdd - partition table, boot record, everything. Data still can be recovered with appropriate tools.
If you want to keep partitioning and get rid of data, then you have to format each partition manually.
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Why not just blow away all the partitions, set up the OS partition during install, and then create any new partitions after the OS is installed. Then restore data to those partitions. Seems to be more straight forward. Also think about the recovery process... Will it always be you doing it? Will there always be partitions there? I've read several stories about data centers losing all their hard drives due to sound - if you had to replace all the HDD's, there'd be no partitions.
You need to make it as simple as you can because during a real disaster there may be many systems needing to be recovered - and it may be necessary to have several people restoring systems.
 
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