[SOLVED] How to wipe hard drive and ssd

[Insane Potatoz]

I have 2 old storage items of hardware. a 320gb hard drive and a 128gb ssd. How do I wipe these? The method used has to be free. Thanks everybody.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Use diskpart clean.
Note - you can not do this on active windows drive. If you need to clean your windows drive, then boot from windows installation media first.

 

[Insane Potatoz]

Use diskpart clean.
Note - you can not do this on active windows drive. If you need to clean your windows drive, then boot from windows installation media first.

How to I clean my windows drive? Also, my SSD that i have won’t let me get into the computer, it keeps saying that windows won’t work and it tries to fix the problems, but never does. Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

Boot from windows installation media and press Shift+F10 to open command prompt.

 

[Insane Potatoz]

Boot from windows installation media and press Shift+F10 to open command prompt.

Sorry, but to boot from installation media, I just insert my usb flash drive with windows 10 on it, go into the bios and use it right?

 

[Encryption+]

You can just format the drives and it will delete all the data on the drives.

 

[USAFRet]

You can just format the drives and it will delete all the data on the drives.

"just format" does not get rid of ALL the partitions on it.

diskpart clean is what is needed here.