How to completely wipe a HDD

[xDylanio]

Hello, well I'm going to reset my pc. But first I want to save some of my old recordings. Just so in a few years I can look back and probably have a good laugh. Anyways since im starting out fresh,the only files I want on my secondary HDD are those recordings. But I have a bunch of useless files from the old pc it came from. Everytime I try to delete them it ends up telling me I need permission from trusted installer.

 

-edit- heres a pic http://prntscr.com/ea41ll

[losBaumos]

just format it with the windows explorer.

[JenjerBread]

6 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

Hello, well I'm going to reset my pc. But first I want to save some of my old recordings. Just so in a few years I can look back and probably have a good laugh. Anyways since im starting out fresh,the only files I want on my secondary HDD are those recordings. But I have a bunch of useless files from the old pc it came from. Everytime I try to delete them it ends up telling me I need permission from trusted installer.

you'll need to change the permissions before you can do anything to it, right click on the file and go to properties

then security then click your pc name and click on edit permissions and select the full control checkbox

 then you should be able to do what you want to those files , you can also do it to folders and i think drives/partitions aswell

Edited February 17, 2017 by gchan985
more info

[JenjerBread]

2 minutes ago, losBaumos said:

just format it with the windows explorer.

he wanted files off it aswell

[xDylanio]

4 minutes ago, gchan985 said:

you'll need to change the permissions before you can do anything to it, right click on the file and go to properties

then security then click your pc name and click on edit permissions and select the full control checkbox

 then you should be able to do what you want to those files , you can also do it to folders and i think drives/partitions aswell

http://prntscr.com/ea44ma

http://prntscr.com/ea44su

I can't find my pc

 

[xDylanio]

http://prntscr.com/ea47jc Now it says here

[Codingmadman]

 

Sorry, can't work out how to delete this post I messed up

[JenjerBread]

10 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

http://prntscr.com/ea44ma

http://prntscr.com/ea44su

I can't find my pc

 

use the admin one or the user one

[xDylanio]

2 minutes ago, Codingmadman said:

 

Sorry, can't work out how to delete this post I messed up

What do you mean?

[xDylanio]

1 minute ago, gchan985 said:

use the admin one or the user one

http://prntscr.com/ea49po and now this shows up, I put full control on my user, and on the administrators

[JenjerBread]

5 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

http://prntscr.com/ea49po and now this shows up, I put full control on my user, and on the administrators

lol i havent seen that before

 

[xDylanio]

7 minutes ago, gchan985 said:

lol i havent seen that before

 

http://prntscr.com/ea4ehg now it just keeps telling me i need to have permission from administrator

[JenjerBread]

4 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

http://prntscr.com/ea4ehg now it just keeps telling me i need to have permission from administrator

are all check boxes slected for admin ??

 

[xDylanio]

1 minute ago, gchan985 said:

are all check boxes slected for admin ??

 

http://prntscr.com/ea4gin yup

[JenjerBread]

2 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

http://prntscr.com/ea4gin yup

scroll down and check if special perms is checked or not??

[xDylanio]

4 minutes ago, gchan985 said:

scroll down and check if special perms is checked or not??

http://prntscr.com/ea4j0j nope it's not

[JenjerBread]

4 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

http://prntscr.com/ea4j0j nope it's not

also have you revoked trust installers perms yet try that if you havent already?

 

[xDylanio]

7 minutes ago, gchan985 said:

also have you revoked trust installers perms yet try that if you havent already?

 

Yea I have, the only one with permission is my user account. Also it doesn't let me add speacial perms

[JenjerBread]

2 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

Yea I have, the only one with permission is my user account. Also it doesn't let me add speacial perms

have you tried the other people/ perms to have full control

[xDylanio]

1 minute ago, gchan985 said:

have you tried the other people/ perms to have full control

Well originally it had system and something else, but i deleted them all, even the trusted installer

[JenjerBread]

1 minute ago, xDylanio said:

Well originally it had system and something else, but i deleted them all, even the trusted installer

ahh shit

[xDylanio]

19 minutes ago, gchan985 said:

ahh shit

Is there any program that can forcefully remove files?