Wiping an SSD, formatting

[RJ45-Dude]

Hi, I had a quick question, and I can't seem to find this information anywhere else; there is an option to wipe your main drive in windows - reset PC, remove everything, clean drive - this will completely wipe the drive. However, I'd like to use this as a normal storage device in my new PC for games, so I was wondering, when I select, "remove files and clean the drive," does it format it, or would I have to format it myself?

 

Thanks to everyone who helps. 

[kb5zue]

If you want to ensure that everything is completely gone from the drive, the best thing to do would be to delete the partitions.  Then create new partitions and format the drive.  Of course you could always use a utility of some sort to write zero's and one's to the drive to fill it up.  That for sure would delete/remove/deny access to any data that would be left on the drive.

 

The utility that I use for those sorts of things is the AOMEI Partition Assistant.  It works great and there is a FREE version that you can download.

 

https://www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

Hope this helps.  Good Luck.

 

PS.  DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM COOLERMASTER, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT FROM THEM OR THEIR WEBSITE.

 

[RJ45-Dude]

3 hours ago, kb5zue said:

If you want to ensure that everything is completely gone from the drive, the best thing to do would be to delete the partitions.  Then create new partitions and format the drive.  Of course you could always use a utility of some sort to write zero's and one's to the drive to fill it up.  That for sure would delete/remove/deny access to any data that would be left on the drive.

 

The utility that I use for those sorts of things is the AOMEI Partition Assistant.  It works great and there is a FREE version that you can download.

 

https://www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

Hope this helps.  Good Luck.

 

PS.  DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM COOLERMASTER, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT FROM THEM OR THEIR WEBSITE.

 

Well, I was hoping I didn't have to bring this up to keep things shorter, but I guess I have to....

 

I currently don't have any nvme to usb, and I can't buy one, as I'm on a budget. The only way I would be able to wipe it is to throw it into a PC as the main C drive and go to "reset this pc" and wipe the drive completely. I doubt it, but is there any way I would be able to use AOMEI's partition assistant to wipe and format the drive while it is the PC's main C drive?

[kb5zue]

I'm not sure but I think they have a version that you could put on a USB.  Lemme look.

 

[kb5zue]

Create AOMEI Partition Assistant to a removable device, such as USB Flash Drive. ... Then, AOMEI Partition Assistant portable version will be created in the root directory of the selected USB drive.

 

Yes, it can go portable.  Check out the website here.

 

https://www.diskpart.com/help/create-portable-version.html