Windows 10: Does the windows "reset this pc" actually wipe the whole hard drive, or is some of the...

ive seen mixed answers on google, some people say it's still on the hard drive and others say it wipes completely and changes everything to 0s

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How to wipe a hard drive

modder I already used kill-disk. The deletion is done, I need to reinstall everything.

 

Tried to wipe hard drives of PC & set boot drive to USB no windows OS

Hi there,

For a little background:

I have bought a 2nd hand PC from eBay and it came and was working fine. However, the original users documents, accounts etc were still all on PC. I wanted to do what I thought was a fairly simple task of resetting the PC to factory settings and wiping hard drives of all possible data.

I followed the step by step guide within settings recovery, and selected remove all files.

This did not work, so I then realised that reagents was not set to a file path at all. I created a file path of a usb and then created a recovery drive.

I then went back to settings > recovery and everything was working fine. Until the PC restarted, and started up again, then I got an error that something went wrong.

I then tried shift+restart. And tried recovery from drive, which also didn't work.

But I think in this process I accidentally selected boot from USB also. So now, I can't reset or wipe anything or get past BIOS.

All I want is to wipe my two hard drives and install a new windows 10.

If someone could help that would be grand, I have tried for hours and days, following different tutorials and forums, but have had no luck.

If any more detail is needed in parts or any extra information I would be more than happy to do my best to get that to you.

Thank you so much to anyone that tries to help!

Thanks,

Luke

 

Hard Drive wiping tool

Hello,

I will be selling my PC in a couple of days, is there a tool which will allow me to completely wipe the hard drive so no sensitive information can be recovered, but also leaving the hard drive in a usable condition because it will be formatted with a new Operating System ready for the next user.

Thanks! *Toast :toast: