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Wiping a computer

TeaAitchSea420
By TeaAitchSea420
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I’m planning on selling my pc. Right now it’s got a boot drive and hdd and the free version of windows made with windows Media creation tool. How would I go about erasing all my data but keeping the windows on there? I’m not bothered about data recovery As it’s being sold to a cousin 

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Just now, NZgamer said:

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Will this wipe the hdd and boot drive together ? 

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Boot from the installer, at the partition screen delete all partitions until the drive is RAW then click next. That will erase the drive and start again clean.

 

1 minute ago, NZgamer said:

SNIP

Doing this does not format the HDD at all.

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