Wiping hardrives

[2wheelin]

Just to clarify this is the first time I have dealt with building a pc. So I built the computer with some parts from some old pcs. I have 2 one terabyte hard drives that need to be wiped at some point. My question is how should I go about doing this, and will it affect my boot up process with all the junk, viruses, and windows 7 that is on the drives. Thanks.

[Crunchy Dragon]

If you install Windows 10, you can wipe the drive during installation.

 

Once 10 is installed, you can install the other drives and use 10's built in disk management utility to wipe the drives from there.

 

Welcome to the forums, and congratulations on your first build!

[Godlygamer23]

When installing Windows, I would advise leaving the other drives unplugged(power or data are equivalent in this scenario. Doesn't matter which one you disconnect) due to Windows sometimes putting System Reserved partitions on other drives during installation. Afterwards, after you get set up, you can open Disk Management(as mentioned above) to remove the current partitions and create new ones.

[2wheelin]

Thanks guys.