Windows 10: Why I can't reset my PC with clean all drive and fully clean the drive checked.

I wanted to reset my PC to remove all files and fully clean all drive but when I choose clean all drive and fully clean the drive option it will say there was a problem resetting your PC. And if I don't choose them it will work like normal. How do I fix this?

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fully clean drive

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?

 

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

 

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!