hdd How To Wipe 2 HDDs

[Roberito]

i recently had a system failure type thing and had to reinstall windows and now i have 4 drives showing up in the folder viewer on windows 7 so i want to just clean wipe everything completly and do a fresh install i have a key and an iso and everything i have a boot usb as well anyway i just need to know how to wipe my drives completely i went to howtogeek.com and it only said to download some program thats like $30 i want a free way to wipe my computer completely please and thank you

 

*UPDATE*Its all fixed now Thank you did a clean install now i just have to take time to install all my battle.net,orgins,steam, and wargaming.net games this will take awhile :'(

Edited August 10, 2016 by Roberito

[SLAYR]

Format them.

[Roberito]

im not very tech savy it took my alot of internet searching to figure how to reinstall after the failure so how do i do that and will that completly wipe them

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 minutes ago, Roberito said:

i recently had a system failure type thing and had to reinstall windows and now i have 4 drives showing up in the folder viewer on windows 7 so i want to just clean wipe everything completly and do a fresh install i have a key and an iso and everything i have a boot usb as well anyway i just need to know how to wipe my drives completely i went to howtogeek.com and it only said to download some program thats like $30 i want a free way to wipe my computer completely please and thank you

Just delete the partitions in diskpart?

[Roberito]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Just delete the partitions in diskpart?

how do i do that

[Enderman]

1) unplug all disks except for ONE which is where you install windows.

 

2) when you get to this screen, click all of the things and hit delete. You will be left with "unallocated space" which you can't delete.

 

3) when you're done installing windows plug in the rest of the drives and then click format in file explorer.

[mattyo5807]

6 minutes ago, Roberito said:

how do i do that

Use a program called DBAN. Just google it. It's super easy and relatively straight forward. Just use the blank mode for internal redeployment, unless you want a more secure wipe.

[Roberito]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

1) unplug all disks except for ONE which is where you install windows.

 

2) when you get to this screen, click all of the things and hit delete. You will be left with "unallocated space" which you can't delete.

 

3) when you're done installing windows plug in the rest of the drives and then click format in file explorer.

 

would you suggest i install it on my 1 tb or my 500 gb hdd

[Enderman]

7 minutes ago, Roberito said:

would you suggest i install it on my 1 tb or my 500 gb hdd

Whatever you want, preferably the newer or faster one.

[Roberito]

welp im gonna try now