windows won't let me wipe old hdd

[OopsThatIsMine]

I put my old HDD (win7) into my new PC (win10) and tried to format it. It said to close any apps that were using it and to retry, but nothing was using it. So I tried using diskpart on admin cmd and it said that "Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume", does anyone know why it's using a drive with a different OS? And how to wipe it (preferably without an install usb/disc)? Thanks

[Redicat]

ok my bad u need Admin privilege aka open as Administrator  CTRL+SHIFT+LMB the Command Prompt (CMD)

1. Type Control Panel in the search box.

2. Click Control Panel.

3. Click Administrative Tools.

4. Click Computer Management.

5. Click Disk Management.

6. Right-click on the drive or partition to format and click on Format.

7. Select the file system and set the cluster size.

8. Click OK to format the drive.

OR

 

Right click Windows 10 start icon click on Disk Management

OR

WINDOWS KEY + R = diskmgmt.msc  OK

Follow Steps 6-8 

[Himommies]

Dban it if you can,cause driver conflicts are a pain in the ass to remove

[OopsThatIsMine]

2 minutes ago, Redicat said:

New pc has a Solid State Disk (SSD) ? does it have flash storage at least 35GB?

Yeah, the new one has an SSD. It has 120GB of capacity total, and I've been using it for a while, I just put the other HDD in today because I needed the extra storage.

[OopsThatIsMine]

5 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Dban it if you can,cause driver conflicts are a pain in the ass to remove

I'll give it a shot

[Redicat]

9 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

Yeah, the new one has an SSD. It has 120GB of capacity total, and I've been using it for a while, I just put the other HDD in today because I needed the extra storage.

Follow steps BELOW or ABOVE again, my bad

14 minutes ago, Redicat said:

ok my bad u need Admin privilege aka open as Administrator  CTRL+SHIFT+LMB the Command Prompt (CMD)

1. Type Control Panel in the search box.

2. Click Control Panel.

3. Click Administrative Tools.

4. Click Computer Management.

5. Click Disk Management.

6. Right-click on the drive or partition to format and click on Format.

7. Select the file system and set the cluster size.

8. Click OK to format the drive.

OR

 

Right click Windows 10 start icon click on Disk Management

OR

WINDOWS KEY + R = diskmgmt.msc  OK

Follow Steps 6-8 

 

[OopsThatIsMine]

3 minutes ago, Redicat said:

Follow steps BELOW or ABOVE again, my bad

 

Format is just greyed out and won't do anything when I click it

[Redicat]

3 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

Format is just greyed out and won't do anything when I click it

Any (green)screenshots? Oh then do the same, but click on "DELETE VOLUME"

[OopsThatIsMine]

4 minutes ago, Redicat said:

Any (green) screenshots? 

green screenshot?

[Redicat]

2 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

green screenshot?

???????

6 minutes ago, Redicat said:

then do the same, but click on "DELETE VOLUME"

[OopsThatIsMine]

2 minutes ago, Redicat said:

???????

delete volume is greyed out too

[Redicat]

6 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

delete volume is greyed out too

 

Try diskpart but as Admin.

 

OR 

 

Try turning your Windows 7 junk HDD into Dynamic Disk and try merging that shit to delete the volume afterwards

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/format-hard-drive-in-windows-10.html

Skip to Format Hard Drive in Windows 10 with EaseUS partition software  and download EaseUS partition software 

[OopsThatIsMine]

 

7 minutes ago, Redicat said:

 

Try diskpart but as Admin.

Apparently my system is using it

[Redicat]

1 minute ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

 

Apparently my system is using it

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/format-hard-drive-in-windows-10.html

Skip to Format Hard Drive in Windows 10 with EaseUS partition software  and download EaseUS partition software 

[OopsThatIsMine]

14 minutes ago, Redicat said:

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/format-hard-drive-in-windows-10.html

Skip to Format Hard Drive in Windows 10 with EaseUS partition software  and download EaseUS partition software 

It wants me to pay for it before it wipes anything for me, I click apply and it gives me an activation screen

[Redicat]

5 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

It wants me to pay for it before it wipes anything for me, I click apply and it gives me an activation screen

Well easy fix = pay 

 

let me know if this works :

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

[Himommies]

5 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

It wants me to pay for it before it wipes anything for me, I click apply and it gives me an activation screen

Just fucking DBAN

[Redicat]

2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Just fucking DBAN

DBAN shorten lifespan

[Himommies]

2 minutes ago, Redicat said:

DBAN shorten lifespan

i've yet to see this one

Source?

iy shouldn't be more damaging than any other type of erasure

[Redicat]

2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

i've yet to see this one

Source?

iy shouldn't be more damaging than any other type of erasure

writing then overwriting it sooo yeah 

use common sense

[Redicat]

12 minutes ago, OopsThatIsMine said:

 

Click on "free trial" https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/

[Himommies]

3 minutes ago, Redicat said:

writing then overwriting it sooo yeah 

use common sense

But then by that logic every single thing you do on a hard drive is killing it

DBAN writes are no diffrent from normal OS writes

[Redicat]

4 minutes ago, Himommies said:

But then by that logic every single thing you do on a hard drive is killing it

DBAN writes are no diffrent from normal OS writes

it is overwriting.

more than you think other than that os only writes on your hard drive (self creation) until it get's filled up not OVERWRITE without permission...

 

DBAN is only suited if you want to destroy the existing Hard Drive

[Himommies]

7 minutes ago, Redicat said:

it is overwriting.

more than you think other than that os only writes on your hard drive (self creation) until it get's filled up not OVERWRITE without permission...

No matter what method you use to delete data on a computer you are overwriting

 

The only way to completely erase a file with no trace is to overwrite the data. The operating system will eventually overwrite files that have no pointers in the directory tree structure, so the longer an unpointed file remains in the hard drive the greater the probability that it has been overwritten. There are also many "file erasing" software products currently on the market that will permanently erase files by overwriting them.

 

https://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/Erasing_Deleted_Files.asp

 

Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing or data wiping) is a software-based method of overwriting the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residingon a hard disk drive or other digital media by using zeros and ones to overwrite data onto all sectors of the device. By overwriting the data on the storage device, the data is rendered unrecoverable and achieves data sanitization.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure

[Redicat]

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

No matter what method you use to delete data on a computer you are overwriting

 

The only way to completely erase a file with no trace is to overwrite the data. The operating system will eventually overwrite files that have no pointers in the directory tree structure, so the longer an unpointed file remains in the hard drive the greater the probability that it has been overwritten. There are also many "file erasing" software products currently on the market that will permanently erase files by overwriting them.

 

https://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/Erasing_Deleted_Files.asp

NO NO NO not to an extend of what DBAN does at once it's gonna NUKE 3x over write ur HDD over 3 times full and that never happen in a long ass time