Windows 10: If I reset my PC, but select 'Keep My Files' do my other drives get wiped clean?

Hi, this is quite a simple question. After many problems with Windows, I've just decided to reset Windows. But before I do, I want to check what will happen to my D drive where I keep all my important files. Does it erase this drive if I select 'Keep my files'? Will it just erase the C drive, where Windows is installed? I really need to keep these files so can anyone help?

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Reset Windows 10. Wipe all files?


Hello Wiss, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If you select all drives as step 6 below while doing a reset, it will delete all files from all drives connected to the PC.

Reset Windows 10

 

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

 

Clean wipe a computer

1) Use "reset my pc" to reset OS and select option to securely erase drive suitable for selling pc.

2) Then you can use DBAN etc to wipe other drives.