Question How to wipe a cloned drive with the OS?

[pekodam]

Hey, I've just successfully cloned my old SATA SSD into an NVME and am curious on how to wipe the drive in the old SATA SSD without any issues. The old SATA has the OS on it so I felt that complicated things a little more and didn't want to just reconnect it.

 

[USAFRet]

Hey, I've just successfully cloned my old SATA SSD into an NVME and am curious on how to wipe the drive in the old SATA SSD without any issues. The old SATA has the OS on it so I felt that complicated things a little more and didn't want to just reconnect it.

Have you fully verified that the system boots with ONLY the new drive?

As in...physical disconnection of the old drive, and verify it boots up with only the new one?

 

[USAFRet]

Also, please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[pekodam]

Have you fully verified that the system boots with ONLY the new drive?

As in...physical disconnection of the old drive, and verify it boots up with only the new one?

Yes I've rebooted more than 3 times at this point to make extra sure.

 

[pekodam]

Also, please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Here:

https://imgur.com/QbpN6We

View: https://imgur.com/QbpN6We

 

[USAFRet]

This is obviously with the old drive disconnected?

The the commandline function diskpart, and the /clean command will do the trick.

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Be absolutely sure of which drive you're accessing.

 

[pekodam]

This is obviously with the old drive disconnected?

The the commandline function diskpart, and the /clean command will do the trick.

How to Format a Hard Drive Using the Command Prompt

You can clean internal and external hard drives using the command prompt by following our instructions.

www.tomshardware.com

How to Diskpart Erase/Clean a Drive Through the Command Prompt | Seagate Deutschland

This article explains the Microsoft Diskpart Erase utility. The command that erases the drive during this process is "Clean". In this article "Clean" and erase are used interchangeably. Cleaning or erasing a storage device removes all data and partitions from the drive.

www.seagate.com

Use diskpart to create, delete and modify disk partitions | TechTarget

Follow these step-by-step instructions to perform a successful diskpart delete partition operation among other disk-related jobs in Windows.

searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com

Be absolutely sure of which drive you're accessing.

Oh that screenshot is of the new drive...Can I just reconnect the old drive and continue or?

 

[USAFRet]

Oh that screenshot is of the new drive...Can I just reconnect the old drive and continue or?

Yes.

 

[pekodam]

This is obviously with the old drive disconnected?

The the commandline function diskpart, and the /clean command will do the trick.

How to Format a Hard Drive Using the Command Prompt

You can clean internal and external hard drives using the command prompt by following our instructions.

www.tomshardware.com

How to Diskpart Erase/Clean a Drive Through the Command Prompt | Seagate Deutschland

This article explains the Microsoft Diskpart Erase utility. The command that erases the drive during this process is "Clean". In this article "Clean" and erase are used interchangeably. Cleaning or erasing a storage device removes all data and partitions from the drive.

www.seagate.com

Use diskpart to create, delete and modify disk partitions | TechTarget

Follow these step-by-step instructions to perform a successful diskpart delete partition operation among other disk-related jobs in Windows.

searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com

Be absolutely sure of which drive you're accessing.

Alright, I've cleaned the drive and am now waiting for it to finish up formatting. Any extra things recommended to do from here?

 

[USAFRet]

Alright, I've cleaned the drive and am now waiting for it to finish up formatting. Any extra things recommended to do from here?

Just...enjoy your new drive...

 

[pekodam]

Just...enjoy your new drive...

Alright, thanks a bunch!