Windows 10: Background photos remain after Reset and Remove everything - Need to fully clean drive

Discus and support Background photos remain after Reset and Remove everything - Need to fully clean drive in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I'm am planning to sell my HP laptop upgraded to Windows 10 from original Windows 7 and wanted to completely clear all files from the hard drive and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by {Nick_B}, Sep 9, 2020.

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    Background photos remain after Reset and Remove everything - Need to fully clean drive


    I'm am planning to sell my HP laptop upgraded to Windows 10 from original Windows 7 and wanted to completely clear all files from the hard drive and reinstall Windows. The laptops runs ok so I did the following from within Windows 10: 'Reset this PC' >'Remove everything' > 'Remove files and clean the drive'. However, after completion I booted the laptop back up to check it had worked and found that the desktop background was displaying the photos I had used as a background prior to the reset. I checked the C drive for any files, but it was all cleared out as far as I could tell although I am by no means an expert, and when I looked at the background settings under 'Personalize' on the desktop, the file browser could not show me where the photos were stored... So somehow these photos have remained stuck in the background despite the reset. I repeated the Reset and Remove everything process but got the same result.

    Please could someone help? I am aware that I could install a fresh copy of Windows 10 from a flash drive after the reset and clean, but have never done this before - would it make a difference?
    Thanks Background photos remain after Reset and Remove everything - Need to fully clean drive :D

    :)
     
    {Nick_B}, Sep 9, 2020
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    After doing a "fully clean drive" in resetting pc, my sign in screen and name are still displayed. Why wasn't that removed, "cleaned " as well? Is it a hardware or software issue?
     
    ChuckKerstein, Sep 9, 2020
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  3. Windows 10 Reset and "Fully Clean The Drive" on SSD

    Hi,

    I have a quick question about the "Fully Clean The Drive" option for Windows 10...

    I have read that if you are planning on selling your computer you should reset Windows 10 and select 'Fully Clean The Drive'. I have read this is 'similar' to running format.exe c:\ /P:0, which would overwrite the whole drive
    with zeros, making data recovery from a traditional HDD pretty much impossible.

    My questions are

    1) What exactly does fully clean the drive do? Does it overwrite the WHOLE drive or just delete user files and overwrite the free space? Because if it were to overwrite the whole drive how could it reinstall windows because there
    would be no remaining data on the drive.

    2) How does fully clean the drive work on SSD's? A single overwrite on a SSD would not be sufficient to sanitise the drive unless a TRIM command was also issued. Would fully clean the drive issue a TRIM command?

    I guess my main question is how likely is it you can recover user data after you 'fully clean the drive' on an SSD?

    Thank you in advance!
     
    DanLowe4543, Sep 9, 2020
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  4. Background photos remain after Reset and Remove everything - Need to fully clean drive

    Reset this pc: fully clean drive. It wipes free space too?

    Hello again

    Does the feature on Windows 10 "Reset this PC" option Remove everything-fully clean the drive ALSO overwrites FREE SPACE?

    I manually formated the disk and everything was gone but a format doesn't overwrites anything. So the fully clean drive from reset it will overwrite the previous deleted files(now free space) from the previous format?

    Thank you and have a great day
     
    765c01fe-064c-45c7-9ebf-bb4dc9d5d93f, Sep 9, 2020
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