Windows 10: question about registry entries when wiping hard drives

Discus and support question about registry entries when wiping hard drives in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I recently wiped (reformatted) my system hard drive and installed a new OS on it (from win 7 to 10). I have multiple hard drives with a lot of my 3rd... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by ChaseECarpenter, Aug 1, 2018.

  1. CHASEECARPENTER
    ChaseECarpenter Win User

    question about registry entries when wiping hard drives


    I recently wiped (reformatted) my system hard drive and installed a new OS on it (from win 7 to 10). I have multiple hard drives with a lot of my 3rd party programs (games, utilities, tools etc) installed on secondary drives. Originally, I had just assumed that I would have to reinstall most of those programs because their registry entries would have been wiped from the drive with the old OS... but everything seems to be working fine (so far) and I don't understand why. I realize some programs don't even bother with registries these days but things still seem to be running too smoothly (at least on the surface). I'm not familiar enough with how registry entries are added (both on the fly and via installations) to know whether I'm missing something, or maybe win 10 is just a lot more adept at these sorts of things?

    :)
     
    ChaseECarpenter, Aug 1, 2018
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  2. FLORIDAJERSEYGUY
    floridajerseyguy Win User

    How to wipe a hard drive

    modder I already used kill-disk. The deletion is done, I need to reinstall everything.
     
    floridajerseyguy, Aug 1, 2018
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    2wicked Win User
    2wicked, Aug 1, 2018
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  4. SHADIN
    Shadin Win User

    question about registry entries when wiping hard drives

    How to wipe a hard drive

    The best utility to use to wipe a hard drive is definitely DBAN. You can do an all-out wipe, or simply write all zeroes to the drive.

    Darik’s Boot and Nuke – DBAN
     
    Shadin, Aug 1, 2018
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