Wipe Boot Drive

[BabyPCMR]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to wipe a boot drive and a regular drive? I don't need all my secure information gone or anything, because the drives are just moving to my brothers PC, but I want to completely remove everything and reinstall Windows from a USB drive. 

 

Thanks in advance!

[Crunchy Dragon]

I believe if you go through the normal reinstallation process there's a prompt that will ask you if you want the installation to keep any old data. For the other drive, just deleting everything on it should be fine.

[Oshino Shinobu]

You'll have disk management options during the install of Windows. You can format the drives from there. 

 

[BabyPCMR]

23 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

You'll have disk management options during the install of Windows. You can format the drives from there. 

 

The boot drive already has windows on it, I have the USB all ready to go and everything, but how do I get to the point where windows is deleted so that I can install Windows from the USB. I essentially want the boot drive to be completely empty.

[Oshino Shinobu]

8 minutes ago, BabyPCMR said:

The boot drive already has windows on it, I have the USB all ready to go and everything, but how do I get to the point where windows is deleted so that I can install Windows from the USB. I essentially want the boot drive to be completely empty.

Boot into the Windows installer USB. From there you'll get the drive management options that I posted above. Using that you can select the drives and format them and delete partitions to clean the drive first. 

 

Installing Windows on the drive will automatically format it anyway, it doesn't actually need to be wiped before installing Windows as it will do that anyway.

[BabyPCMR]

7 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Boot into the Windows installer USB. From there you'll get the drive management options that I posted above. Using that you can select the drives and format them and delete partitions to clean the drive first. 

 

Installing Windows on the drive will automatically format it anyway, it doesn't actually need to be wiped before installing Windows as it will do that anyway.

I'm currently on the screen you showed, is there anyway I can prevent windows.old from being created, the ssd boot drive isn't huge.

[Oshino Shinobu]

4 minutes ago, BabyPCMR said:

I'm currently on the screen you showed, is there anyway I can prevent windows.old from being created, the ssd boot drive isn't huge.

If you format it beforehand rather than just letting the Windows install process format it, it shouldn't create a Windows.old.

 

So select the drive and click format first, then select the drive to install on.