Windows 10: How to properly "reset" the SSD on a used laptop with Windows 11

I just bought a used laptop and I would like to "reset" the SSD in order to avoid that any virus/malware would remain in the memory.The laptop comes with Windows 11 installed originally it had Windows 10 and the seller already did a factory reset, but I would like to personally clean it up.I was thinking about installing Windows 11 again with a bootable USB drive, and during the Windows Setup process just format the SSD the full way, not Quick Format.Would that be enough to completely "clean" the SSD?

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New SSD, is it performing properly?

i would suggest to secure erase it, and partition it so that the partition is 25% smaller than the SSD's size...
i believe that will Significantly increase the random access rate so that you won't experience the "pauses" that make SSD's seem slow... anandtech's lastest review of SSD's seem to make this suggestion.

TL;DR... size your SSD 25% smaller than it's size. (windows partition...)

 

New SSD, is it performing properly?

This!!! *Wink

That's new... a link please? An SSD isnt a HDD though in random anything. There shouldnt be any 'pauses' even with an older SSD. I mean you have 8ms search times vs .02 on SSDs...

 

Internet Explorer 11 doesn't show webpages properly after System Reset

The problem you are getting is to do with IE11 not loading your web pages properly.
I had this problem on windows 8.1.
Since upgrading to 10 and disabling IE11 and using Bing the problem has gone.
The way I used to overcome it was to clear the cache then do a restart

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