Wipe everything from windows 11

[Red_TC]

ive backed up all my important files 

OBS profiles, Photos, etc

 

whats the best way to get rid of everything off all 4 of my drives, i have 2 Samsung 970 nvmes

and 2 Seagate Barracuda HDD 

 

i knew of an app called DBAN but it seems to have changed from its free version. if anyone has any alternatives it would be greatly appreciated 

[TylerD321]

Are you selling the drives, giving them to someone, or reusing in your own machine?

 

If you are just reusing them yourself when you go to reinstall windows you can just delete all of the partitions and reformat the drives there.

[Red_TC]

2 minutes ago, TylerD321 said:

Are you selling the drives, giving them to someone, or reusing in your own machine?

 

If you are just reusing them yourself when you go to reinstall windows you can just delete all of the partitions and reformat the drives there.

using for myself, not selling whats the best way to "re install windows"

[TylerD321]

3 minutes ago, Red_TC said:

using for myself, not selling whats the best way to "re install windows"

Step 1: Find your windows key just in case. 

 

 

Step 2: Do everything else. (Start video at 14:51)

 

[Red_TC]

6 minutes ago, TylerD321 said:

Step 1: Find your windows key just in case. 

 

 

Step 2: Do everything else. (Start video at 14:51)

 

THANKS G!

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Red_TC said:

using for myself, not selling whats the best way to "re install windows"

If you are doing it for yourself, then is there a particular reason you want to wipe ALL the drives?

 

Generally you only need to wipe the OS drive, unless Windows Store has made a mess of the other drives with protected files you can't delete, which I had happen one time.