Easiest Quickest Bootable USB Wipe

[JeffJK]

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone recommend a simple tool so I can create a Bootable USB to wipe drives, but also create a wipe log that saves on the same USB?
- It would also be nice if the naming convention of the wipe log, saves the name as the devices serial number.

- I got about 150 Surfaces to wipe, so I want it to be quick, simple, painless.

 

Thanks!

[jaslion]

Shredos?

 

Possibly these devices have secure erase in bios which means the ssd is immediatly wiped fully in seconds. 

[JeffJK]

HMmm, I just tried using ShredOS.
Used Rufus and latest ShredOS iso (v2025.11_28_x86-64_0.40)
However, it took about an hour to complete.

Not sure what would be the most optimal config I would need to use.
The Surfaces are mostly 7's and 8's

Any suggests?

[Guest]

Would creating a custom Windows PE drive that starts a custom script work?

 

The script would use:

• diskpart clean (to erase all partitions)
• diskpart create partition primary (create one large partition)
• format (non-quick format whole partition)
• diskpart clean (erase partition to prepare for new OS installation)

If you still need something, I can make you an ISO later like this if you want. I'm not sure how secure a non-quick format would be, but I've heard it's way better than simply quick formatting. If you don't care about the possible data retrieval, I could skip that and make the process almost instant instead.