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Methulon
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1 minute ago, Methulon said:

Do any of you guys know a good free software, to secure erase my SSD? 

It's a Kingston UV400 120GB. Kingston SSD Manager software, won't let me do a secure erase. 

 

 - Thanks. :D 

Smash it. :P

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DBN 

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Just now, Methulon said:

I already tried, but it didn't work :( 

what didn't????

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Asrock RX9070xt Steel Legends, Corsair RM750X, 500gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 3x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a Obsidian 750D airflow.
GF PC: (NightHawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb 860 evo, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

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Just now, Methulon said:

Well, I tried formatting the SSD, but it didn't work, all the partitions was there, and windows still won't let

me do a clean install of windows 

Derik's boot and nuke

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Asrock RX9070xt Steel Legends, Corsair RM750X, 500gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 3x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a Obsidian 750D airflow.
GF PC: (NightHawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb 860 evo, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

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Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

HP probook 445R G6 review

 

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Just now, Methulon said:

Well, I tried formatting the SSD, but it didn't work, all the partitions was there, and windows still won't let

me do a clean install of windows 

Did you try booting from a recovery disk, going to diskpart and then cleaning etc.?

To RGB, or not to RGB? That is the question.

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http://www.dban.org/

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

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GF PC: (NightHawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb 860 evo, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 35mm F1.4, Helios 44

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Just now, StaffCorporal said:

DBAN doesn't work with SSDs. It even says on the page you linked to :|

the pro version does

 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Asrock RX9070xt Steel Legends, Corsair RM750X, 500gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 3x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a Obsidian 750D airflow.
GF PC: (NightHawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb 860 evo, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 35mm F1.4, Helios 44

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Just now, Methulon said:

in this command, do I get to chose the drive I wan't to do it on?

Yes! When in diskpart. You use:  "list disk" and then "select disk n"  (n being the number of the disk you wish to select)

To RGB, or not to RGB? That is the question.

- Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act III, scene I.

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2 minutes ago, Methulon said:

It says, it has been done successfully, shall I try installing windows now?

 

Yes, if you did it right it should work now ;) Maybe clean and quick format first though.

To RGB, or not to RGB? That is the question.

- Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act III, scene I.

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6 minutes ago, Methulon said:

It's still not working....

I got a screenshot; it's in danish, so I'll translate: 

 

 

"There was an unexpected error during the installation of Windows. Make sure that there is access to the installation source and restart the installation."

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No need to translate. Jeg forstår fint dansk. ;) I think it is some problem with the partition, did you clean the drive? Basically this is what I would do: 

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (id)
DISKPART> online disk (if the disk is not online)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> convert mbr (or gpt, depending on what you want)
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active (if this is the boot partition)
DISKPART> format quick fs=ntfs

To RGB, or not to RGB? That is the question.

- Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act III, scene I.

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