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Hey, so i am essentially just trying to delete everything on my HDD and make it new again! There is a old copy of windows 10 on it but its not being used, as I have windows 10 on my ssd along with everything else. Yes I really just want a straight simple answer on how to essentially delete everything, make it new again, and be able to put some games and what not on it. If anyone could provide me with a video or simply just make a list with steps on how to do it. I would prefer steps rather than watch someone for 10 minutes and something not turning out right. *note* For some reason my HDD is in read only mode? I am not sure why but that shouldn’t stop me from making it new again right? Cheers to anyone who can help!
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Hello! I have a PNY 500GB SSD that will not wipe. I used it in my laptop for about a month before I put it in my brand new build. When I went to install windows, it wouldn't write to the SSD, only the HDD. So whatever. I'll just install to the HDD and wipe the hard drive from there. After installing windows on the HDD, the windows partition manager said it wasn't initialized. When I tried to initialize it, windows threw an error saying that the i/o device isn't working (or something like that). Maybe the SSD is corrupted? I tried a few disk wipers, to no avail. And now I'm booted into DBAN, but it is going super slow. I'm not sure if I'm able to stop the DBAN operation without permanent damage to my SSD. The picture should have all the information needed.
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So I have a Samsung 860 evo that I used previously as a boot drive. I want to safely wipe it and use it as storage how do I safely remove the files left over and reformat it? using windows 10
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Recently I've been planning on completely wiping my 1TB and my 120gb boot SSD since im running into a lot of performance issues due to some corrupted users on my pc and just an overall bad partition job when I had transferred my boot files from my hard drive to my SSD. Does anyone know an official way of completely wiping both my HDD and SSD? I have most of my things backed up online and all my passwords are on LastPass, my games arent much of a worry as I can easily download them back again and I dont have any important files on this PC for me to worry about. I was also wondering how long the process would take and if it would be okay if I left my PC wipe itself overnight as its hard to do it during the day as I use my PC the majority of the day. Any help is appreciated, thank you.
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Hello everyone, i’m here because i am literally exhausted both in ideas and just about everything else. let me give some context: I’m going to stick to the super cliff notes version; about 3-4 months ago a bunch of weird stuff started happening to me. About four weeks ago i identified a MITM and DNS attack. I tried evading it by completely wiping everything and dumping all old accounts, usernames, phone number, everything. Got a new modem and router. That was a Friday. That coming Monday this thing came out visibly pissed at me. At one point seemingly dropping a martyrdom grenade when i installed and ran hitman pro which resulted in two 1tb NVMe drives getting wiped, and a third, the ine with my OS, getting write protected. since then it’s been a constant struggle, and a daily escalation on their part. It’s like playing one of the weirdest games of king of the hill or capture the flag ever. Particularly over my router and network. But it’s to the point where they can completely hijack a machine from clean install within 24 hours. Possibly faster if i didn’t have a day job. so my question is this: how do i wipe everything down to bare metal? the thing is most definitely a root kit and that combined with their hijacking of my network they’re able to drop an entire stable of nasty shit. The worst being a windows mirror trojan or whatever they’re called that’ll essentially run around as me both in the os and online and slowly box me out of the os by means of write protecting certain key files. Again, i need to wipe these things down to just pcb and metal. Any ideas? i’m particularly speaking about motherboards and then after that, cell phones and laptops. i have an eeprom programmer and have thought about just deleting everything off the spi, but every ch43a file i go to download is also riddled with malware. any tips are appreciated. thank you edit: guess i should inventory which motherboards huh z690 unify w/12900ks z690 edge wifi ddr4 w/12900k Asus Prime 560m-a w/i9 10900 EVGA x299 dark ftw-k w/10900x msi z690 pro ddr4 w/an i5 that’s on the way.
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Hello, yesterday I basically overhauled my entire PC just keeping the same SATA SSD and GPU. The PC currently is running fine on the old windows and everything, but from what I understand there could be some performance issues in the background if you don't install fresh windows after major changes in your PC specifications. Now even if its not that different, i think there is a lot of bloat from all kinds of installation on my PC and I would like to get a clean installation. How would I go about doing this? I do have a flash drive with Windows 10 installation setup on it, but its quite old, i think like 2 years. Do I install a fresh Windows 10 setup on this flash or should I use Windows Recovery for Resetting the PC? The thing is i want an installation without any of the Microsoft bloatware, not One Drives or Microsoft accounts, so probably as JayzTwoCents did and not connect ethernet while installing. Edit: The main issue for me is that i only have installed windows on already empty drives, so that's why I'm not sure how to do it on already full drive.
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Hello, I have recently been given the task of replacing my friends HDD with an SSD on his 2014 MacBook Pro that is disastrously slow. My plan was to use a bootable USB with MAC OS on it. Upon turning on the macbook pro and holding "option" the macbook would not recognize the .dmg file with the Mac Os on it. My friend said he was fine if Windows 10 was on it. So I took the easy route and grabbed my other USB with WIndows 10 and did an install. After installing Windows 10 I ran into many QoL problems - Can't right click, speakers won't work, can't scroll with 2 fingers. Speakers not working and no right-click being the man problems. Now I want to delete everything and start again by trying to install Mac OS however I have not found a single "free" software that would allow me to wipe my SSD and restart. All I would like to do is replace Windows 10 with MAC OS (there are so many MAC OS's on apples software download site...I don't even know which one to select which may have been my initial problem). Any suggestions as to what I can do to replace my Windows 10 with the right kind of MAC OS for a 2014 MacBook Pro?
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Hello, I need to run the Samsung Secure Erase Bootable USB to erase my ssd before migration but whenever I boot from it I get sent straight windows instead of the utility. I have attempted it multiple times but to no avail. I have windows 10 on an ASUS GL552VW-DH71 Notebook. I have had constant issues so I just want to finally get all this worked out so I can use my ssd after two months of unusability.
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I'm doing a fresh restart with my computer system, aiming to wipe my hard drive completely and then install the os on my new ssd and boot from that. Any good tips how to wipe the drive? Thanks.
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I have a SSD that i want to erase everything on (including the OS) so that i can have a clean install of windows for my new PC. I don't know much about reformatting or partitions so it would be helpful if you explained it to me. Thanks.
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Alright boys and girls, lets talk about something crazy and I want some discussions and conversation about this lightly thought subject that should be thought deeply. Do you wipe your ass standing up or sitting down.For myself I wipe my ass sitting down. Why? Because its not meant to be a squatting exercise and its easier to wipe. I want you to say which style and why?
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What is the best way to wipe my Samsung 860 EVO without dmg? It is currently my boot device on an old build for windows and now my only device on my system. I'm taking this SSD for my (new)build as extra gaming storage and starting from scratch on the current (old) build for my wife. I don't need any files on my 860 EVO.
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Here is the scenario: I'm an intern at a big software company and my job now is to wipe hard-drives they nolonger use. There are around 2000 drives I need to wipe, 100GB to 1000GB in size, and corporate says they need to be reusable afterwards, so smashing them isn't an option. PC they gave me is a Dell Optiplex 980 i5 650, 8gb ram, 4 sata-slots. I can wipe 4 drives at a time and it takes me (the computer) 6 hours. Id like to squeeze this down to 4 hours or less, because of the 8-hour day. My question is, Does CPU and RAM or other factors like that affect the time it takes to wipe a drive, and if yes, how do I prove this to my boss? Or should I just find some setup with more sata connections? External devices like HDD-docks seem to wipe 2-5 times slower.
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Hi, My PC is filling up with garbage and stuff and its getting slower... i want to reset windows to a clean "install" so i can start clean (only thing what will hurt me is GTA V 2 day download again xD) i have 2 questions about this: 1. Will it slow down / do some other bad thing to my PC? 2. Will my second D:\ disk get wiped to (i want that wiped too btw) thank - Quentin
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Hello everybody I recently built myself a new pc and am now planning on selling my old one. However, I want to completely wipe my hard drives before i sell it. What is the best way to do that/what software should I use?
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I don't know if this question already discussed or not because I've tried searching this but i don't know how to describe my problem in search box so please forgive me. from so many years my one single hard drive was divided into windows 8.1(C:\) and personal files (D:\) and that caused everything run super slow, so now i bought a new ssd windows 10 already installed on it and inserted it in and now its automatically booting to the windows 10, its directory is (C:\) but windows 8.1 is still there as (D:\) and my personal files are in (E:\). How do i remove 8.1 [(D:\) particularly] without damaging personal files?
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So I want a completely fresh start with my pc. I have already got a windows 10 usb drive to reinstall windows, and no I want to completely wipe my drives and have a 100% fresh windows 10 install, not just the delete most of my apps option built into the settings app. I know this is a noob question but how do I actually wipe my drives to get a fresh start? Thanks!
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So I bought a laptop about a year ago and it cost £300 (at time of purchase) from Currys PC World and the laptop turned out to be crap, I did absolutely no research on it and I just bought it because I liked the colour. Apparently, the laptop is only worth £50 so I wanted to sell it but I can't wipe my data. Every time I set it to wipe the data, I would try and do the longer option, (cleaning the drive) and after about half an hour the laptop would forget what it's doing and abandon the task. I have tried at least 15 times several different ways, none of them have worked. Please help! Here is the laptop: https://business.currys.co.uk/catalogue/computing/laptops/windows-laptop/hp-15-ba077sa-15-6-laptop-teal/N164506W Thanks!
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Hia, I bought and fixed a server a few weeks ago, installed some new hardware and the newest version of Linux Mint. I've been messing around with different software solutions for what I wanna do and I finally have everything planned. The problem is, now I've got a very messy server with lots of different crap on it and I wanna wipe it completely. There is one SSD (with OS) and two HDD's (formatted with ZFS) in the machine and I wanna wipe everything, the ZFS formatting, all files and start all new. How would I best go about doing that? Cheers
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so after my pc went horribly slow from one second to the other with no errors on memtest, cpu and gpu tests, and no viruses i thought it would just be time to do a full reset and wipe everything. that was around 5 hours ago. went to 10% within 45 minutes and has been stuck at 10% for 4-5 hours now. ive reset many laptops and computers before and never had a problem like this. shall i just let it run? there were around 500 gibs of games and files on the ssd/hdd thanks
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Hi, I've got a drive I'd like to use as a bit of extra storage on my main computer from an old computer I recently disassembled, whats the easiest method of removing all the files etc that are on the hard drive?
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I have two drives, C drive - SDD 128GB and D drive - 1TB WD HDD on a laptop. I installed Ubuntu on a pendrive (Sandisk Ultra 32GB) and was running Ubuntu for a while, then I switched to windows, sill seeing everything fine, seeing both the drives on the pc working, when suddenly I notice D drive unmounted and when I went into manage, it says create a new partition. I reckoned that the drive's nuked, I made a partition of it without formatting but no hits. Now I need to recover my hundreds of GBs of really really important data. What can I do?
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So earlier today I wiped my hard drive to start fresh again. So I wiped it using EaseUS which I found through a tutorial video on youtube. after it was fully wiped I plugged it into my PC along with my other drive which has windows on it and my drive isn't detected! (image attached) I have my windows boot drive and then my mass storage drive but the mass storage drive isn't detected. Somebody please help. It was fine and working until I wiped it and now it isn't picking up. It's receiving power because I can feel it moving when I touch it.
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Hello friends, Question for y'all: how should I clean my old hard drive? I don't care about securely wiping it because I will continue to use it for a few years, I just want to clean all the data off of it. Should I reformat it? Thanks, Andrew Edit: I just reformatted it, thanks for the help guys!
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I got a new pc and it only has 250gb ssd. How can I completely wipe my laptop 1tb sshd while keeping it usable?