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Discus and support Windiws 10 Fully clean the drive in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Question is if I have more then one drive and Windows 10 installed in C:Drive the Fully clean the drive option will clean C:Drive only or others drive... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by PrameshUI Designer, Aug 21, 2019.

  1. PRAMESHUI DESIGNER
    PrameshUI Designer Win User

    Windiws 10 Fully clean the drive


    Question is if I have more then one drive and Windows 10 installed in CWindiws 10 Fully clean the drive :Drive the Fully clean the drive option will clean CWindiws 10 Fully clean the drive :Drive only or others drive also.


    Thanks

    Pramesh

    :)
     
    PrameshUI Designer, Aug 21, 2019
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  2. DANLOWE4543
    DanLowe4543 Win User

    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!
     
    DanLowe4543, Aug 21, 2019
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  3. CALLUMENGLISH
    callumenglish Win User
    Fully clean the drive

    I've been fully cleaning the drive for about 12 hours now and it's been stuck at the same percentage for ages as I left it over night is there anyway I can check to speed up the process or check if it's not even working anymore thanks
     
    callumenglish, Aug 21, 2019
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  4. ANDRE DA COSTA
    Andre Da Costa Win User

    Windiws 10 Fully clean the drive

    Andre Da Costa, Aug 21, 2019
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