stop cmd " clean all" [HELP]

[sz0ty0l4]

Hello all. This will be a long write but please continue reading if you think you can help me i'd apperciate it.

So i had a wd green 2tb installed win 8.1 on it, then i bought ssd 850 evo,disconnected the hdd,connected ONLY the ssd, installed win 8.1 on it, then booted reconnected hdd, tryed formatting it but couldn't. there were 4 partitions what wasn't seen and couldn't be deleted even with command prompt diskpart command" delete partition override" so i deleted 1 of them( old system reserved partition ) with win installer(i could only delete 1 from 4). then windows was doing crazy repairs at boot dropping bootsqm.dats in non wanted parts. etc.

I didnt care about my data's anyway the most important are backed up. and i decided to totally format my old hdd(wdgreen2tb) make 1 big partition and delete old reserved partitionsn, restore partitions and such unneeded crap.
I went to command prompt. diskpart. listed disk. selected the 2tb hdd. and used a " clean all" command to zero overwrite the disk and totally wipe out old windows files, system reserved partitions etc etc because i'm sure that caused the issues., but now i've noticed it is taking forever and i found info that its like 1hour/300gb so like 6-7 hours. i do not want to wait that long, but i do not want to damage the hdd aswell.

Can i just shut down diskpart, then restart diskpart and do a " clean" command on the hdd ( which takes much less time like 15 min if im right) ? will this be fine ifi interrupt " clean all" cmd???

If this is solved i plan disconnect the old hdd , connect only the SDD again, format it with windows installer( hopefully it will work?) clean install windows 8.1 ,after its done , reconnect the hdd and and format it to a one partition ntfs with command prompt or disk management.

Please if you can help , thanks

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey sz0ty0l4. Basically stopping the process wouldn't physically harm your drive. But it may cause a lot of partition issues. Having in mind that you don't want any data or anything, you could do just as you plan. Make a fresh Windows install on the SSD (with the HDD disconnected). After that reconnect it and instead of using diskpart, you could download DLG (Data Lifeguard Diagnostic) and run Write Zeros (use Quick Erase so that it doesn't take too much time again) on the drive. This is a low level format and it writes zeros on the first and last million sectors of the drive. After that Disk Management will treat the HDD as a new drive, you'll have to initialize, partition and format it. And everything should be fine after that.
You can download DLG from here: Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows

Here's how to do the "Write Zeros": How to low level format or write zeros (full erase) to a WD hard drive (note that this is a guide for Full Erase, just select Quick Erase instead of that so that you don't have to wait for hours)

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Thank you your answer boogieman_wd. I have one more question, this "quick erase" option of "data lifeguard diagnostic for windows" does the same like the diskpart cmd " clean " right? Probably it would be easier for me just ot shut down the " clean all" and run a simple " clean " cmd after?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Not exactly. The clean all command does the same as the Full Erase option of DLG, but the clean command does not write "zeros" over your data as both the clean all command and the Full Erase option do. Instead it marks your data as deleted and it is deleted when you overwrite it. The full write zeros process is recommended if you want to make your data irretrievable. The Quick Erase option of the DLG performs write zeros (as mentioned in my previous post) only to the first and last million sectors of the drive which make it very hard to retrieve any data from it, but not as impossible as a Full Erase would make it.

Basically the clean command should do the job as well. Use whichever option you prefer.

I hope this cleared things up a bit

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Thank you for explanation, i knew that the " clean all" will zero-write it, but i didn't remember it will take so long time, anyway i'll stop it now and do wether dlg or clean cmd, then reinstall win 8.1 to ssd then reconnect and reformat the hdd into a 1 or 2 partition disk for games and such. thanks for your help, in case something goes wrong i'll probably get back here 😀

 

[Boogieman_WD]

No worries, I hope that everything goes just as planned, but feel free to ask about anything that comes to mind.

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Total succession. Finally windows was able to normally partition the SSD and install windows and aswell to normally partition and format the hdd which is working as intended now and all "old system partitions recovery part. stuff and other crap are gone. i even changed the cables because the sideplate was pushing the psu cables connected to the ssd. now need to download all updates and important stuff, thank you for your help mate!
Now i feel the true power of SSD , it makes things really fast xD

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Ahh crap. Now windows update gone mad and total failed.. like 30 of 40 update failed with " cannot write memory " and such errors XDDD then it rolled back updates...then it installed 11 updates succesfully. now its trying to install like 70-80 more updates( some of them are the failed ones i think) anyway hopefully it will succeed now^^

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Any luck with the updates? I was glad after I read your first post that everything turned out just as planned and now this. Sorry that you have another issue mate. 🙁
Let me know if you were able to update the OS successfully. If you get some more error messages would you please write them down with the exact code so that we could think of a possible solution? I'll try to help you as much as I can.
Although I hope everything went better the second time it started updating.

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Ohh thank you haha, yeah some little complications turned out, seems win 8.1 doesn't like if i partition the ssd at start of installation with "new" and all the updates fail and system becomes instable. I totally reinstalled without partitioning manually. iT's a win8.1 x64 po Is this intended? Anyway it's running very well now, benchmarks are great aswell. faster than ever 😀

 

[Boogieman_WD]

I honestly have no idea why you've encountered this issue. Generally there shouldn't be any problem with a partitioned SSD or Windows 8.1. The positive thing is that everything's working perfectly fine right now (if you're not bothered by the fact that the SSD is not partitioned). You did a great job.

 

[sz0ty0l4]

Thanks for association 😀 Yah i really like it, it's so fast compared to HDDs. I've already did most of the options to take the most out of it, also moved my download /documents etc folders to hdd to save write cycles.
Btw i'd have 1 last question i couldn't find clear answer for it.
Samsung says there is 5 year warranty for the 850evo 250gb ssd. But it has endurance of write limitation of 75TB.

If i use all the 75TB writes, before warranty would run out ( for example 2-3 years which could be close to reality) and the product dies, i'm still authorized to activate warranty? I mean 75TB is clearly not enough for 5 years. I'm at 0.34TB already, just with installing windows 3 times and 1x 50gb game.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

I'm a Western Digital employee, mate. 😀 Unfortunately I have no idea what Samsung's warranty policy is. But if it's stated 5 years or 75TB, then I guess that if you either criteria, you'd be out of warranty. If you want to be sure of that, I'd suggest that you contact their customer support directly and ask them about that specifically, or look it up if they have a Q&A/FAQ directory for the warranty.
Best of luck with your drives and hopefully you don't encounter any problems with them. 😉