Purging Windows 11 from SSD

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Windows 11.
To CP2077 benchmark introduced sometimes massive ,sometimes not,but ever present screen tearing.
While it seems to be matching Win 10 performance at possibly 1 to 1 bases,my eyes and brain haven't noticed such screen tearing on Win 10 .

Also ,the UI is absolutely disgusting.

So I want to purge it off my SSD and re-install Win 10.

Tom's Hardware did an article on something similar,but not quite what I want.
In that article they explain how to truly wipe out everything from SSD except for Windows themselves(unless I missed something).

Imagine you go to a store, purchase empty SSD without OS.
That is what I want.
The alternative is to bring it to some PC shop,spend money so they do it for me(it wouldn't be the first time).

Thank you in Advance

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There are many so-called solutions on the Internet.
None of them complete purging of the OS from the Storage.
Innitialy it would seem they have,but the more I would read,the more it would become obvious I am wasting my time.
 
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Get a USB boot drive with the Windows 10 setup package on it.

Boot to that drive. There is an option to delete existing disk partitions during the setup process, and make new partitions.
Win11 will then effectively be gone (overwritten as you re-install Win10).
 
This here - does exactly that.

I accidentaly found better and perfect solution. Secure Erase+ in my Motherboard BIOS. Gave me exactly what I wanted.It made SSD into a condition like when you purchase it from the shop.
I installed Windows 10 Home from the USB stick I legaly purchased in a PC Shop in the early 2019.
So currently I am running Windows 10 Home from 2018.
No matter.
Will update to newer version of Win 10 soon.
 
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Get a USB boot drive with the Windows 10 setup package on it.

Boot to that drive. There is an option to delete existing disk partitions during the setup process, and make new partitions.
Win11 will then effectively be gone (overwritten as you re-install Win10).
I accidentaly found better and perfect solution. Secure Erase+ in my Motherboard BIOS. Gave me exactly what I wanted.It made SSD into a condition like when you purchase it from the shop.
I installed Windows 10 Home from the USB stick I legaly purchased in a PC Shop in the early 2019.
So currently I am running Windows 10 Home from 2018.
No matter.
Will update to newer version of Win 10 soon.
 
I accidentaly found better and perfect solution. Secure Erase+ in my Motherboard BIOS.
Secure-erase isn't something you really need to worry about unless you have top-secret data on your SSD that you need to make sure nobody will ever be able to access again. For most people, that only ever happens before selling a drive if you aren't typically using them until they die like I do. For an OS re-install, just deleting the partition or giving it a quick-format would have achieved your goal of wiping Windows 11 out.

Secure erase is a bit overkill if all you wanted to do is fresh-install Windows 10.
 
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