How To Fully Wipe My PC (HDD and SSD)

[Cringelix]

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.

 

[Digideath]

The easiest way, without 3rd party software, is to use the windows installer tool. You can delete partitions and set up new ones, by using the install process. You are looking to reinstall windows from scratch? That's the easiest way to do it.

[dilpickle]

Just now, Digideath said:

The easiest way, without 3rd party software, is to use the windows installer tool. You can delete partitions and set up new ones, by using the install process. You are looking to reinstall windows from scratch? That's the easiest way to do it.

This.

 

@NurseMedusaYou're talking about "wiping" and leaving it overnight. That is something you would only do for security purposes if you are giving your PC to someone.

 

If you just want to re-install windows all you have to do is run the installer and delete all your partitions there. Then choose what drive to install to and it will automatically create the partitions it needs.

[cr8tor]

1 hour ago, NurseMedusa said:

if it would be okay if I left my PC wipe itself overnight as its hard to do it during the day

Its not an automated process. You will have to interact with it multiple times for multiple reasons.

I can wipe and reinstall my machine in less than 30 minutes with all drivers and basics like chrome and lastpass installed, but its also what i do and i have a fairly quick PC.

 

Use the windows media creation tool to create a bootable USB key that you can install from.

If you keep an eye on it, most any machine can install windows in about 30 minutes and then youll need drivers

You might download drivers for the mobo before hand to speed up the process.

[bmx6454]

you can also "clean" the drives and format them through diskpart by pulling up a cmd with "shift+f10" while in the windows installer.

[WhitetailAni]

The RedKey.

It wipes everything.

Even your OS (if applicable)