[SOLVED] killdisk usb booting partially

What OS are you trying to eventually install? You should be able to wipe all partitions during the install process.
Windows 10 and i know they allow you to format... However all the data is "still there" these are all ssd's and therefore arn't meant to be defraged... I wish to speed them up a little by wiping years of unistalled reinstalled games and programs and just General sluggishness all this lag is putting on my system
 

COLGeek

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Wasn't talking about defragging. Just removing all existing partitions.

Does your motherboard support a secure wipe function for SSDs? Many newer models do now.

Regarding killdisk, you could try a fresh download and install to another USB drive. I use Rufus to make bootable thumb drives. Works great.
 
Wasn't talking about defragging. Just removing all existing partitions.

Does your motherboard support a secure wipe function for SSDs? Many newer models do now.

Regarding killdisk, you could try a fresh download and install to another USB drive. I use Rufus to make bootable thumb drives. Works great.
I dont think so all i see is secure boot options. I have
Asus 990fx sabortooth r2.0 latest bios
Fx-8350 be 4.4GHz liquid cooled
Rx 560 4gb oc'd dual fan edition
500gb ssd
1tb ssd
120gb ssd
60gb ssd win 10 pro x64
16gb ddr3 hyperx fury rgb kited
750w psu evga
Rgb strips
Rgb contoler
Optical drive
T6e archer "which by the way is supposedly ac but will only connect to n no matter what. When my crappier card would but still got worse connection speeds"
16gb usb x2 encryption key cards to certain admin files. My brother thinks he's a computer guru and likes to try and alter system image files to "speed up the pc".
32gb usb
And a firewall card thats a beast and has been with me through 3 builds
 

USAFRet

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Windows 10 and i know they allow you to format... However all the data is "still there" these are all ssd's and therefore arn't meant to be defraged... I wish to speed them up a little by wiping years of unistalled reinstalled games and programs and just General sluggishness all this lag is putting on my system
Deleting all existing partitions during the install leaves nothing behind.
There is no latent sluggishness.
 
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Deleting all existing partitions during the install leaves nothing behind.
There is no latent sluggishness.
As a son of a software tech for the police i assure you there is more than enough left on the drives to cause lag, how do you think people even after "formatting" there drive and deleteing the partitions i still convicted off of evidence found on there pc..... NO I HAVE NOTHING ON MY COMPUTER, however like i said my pc has been rather slow recently and fresh insall hasn't helped. So i was going to wipe to form factor settings and start scratch
 

USAFRet

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As a son of a software tech for the police i assure you there is more than enough left on the drives to cause lag, how do you think people even after "formatting" there drive and deleteing the partitions i still convicted off of evidence found on there pc..... NO I HAVE NOTHING ON MY COMPUTER, however like i said my pc has been rather slow recently and fresh insall hasn't helped. So i was going to wipe to form factor settings and start scratch
Data structure on an SSD is significantly different than what may remain on an HDD after a 'format'.

For your specific drive...does the manufacturer publish a Secure Erase utility?

Kingston:
https://www.kingston.com/en/community/articledetail/articleid/10

Samsung:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/support-software/Samsung-Secure-Erase-949/

Crucial (Sanitize)
https://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Methods-for-Erasing-an-SSD/ta-p/176886
 
Data structure on an SSD is significantly different than what may remain on an HDD after a 'format'.

For your specific drive...does the manufacturer publish a Secure Erase utility?

Kingston:
https://www.kingston.com/en/community/articledetail/articleid/10

Samsung:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/support-software/Samsung-Secure-Erase-949/

Crucial (Sanitize)
https://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Methods-for-Erasing-an-SSD/ta-p/176886
Actually yes kingston thank you, but does that zero the drive? Sorry reading that sounds sarcastic no it wasn't im serious does it?