Windows 10: Wiping my hard drive clean Windows 10

Hello all, I just bought a new computer with Win11. HP Envy I think. Anyway I want to wipe clean Old Computer #1. I went online and found these instructions and want to know if your agree with it: How to wipe a hard drive - Windows 10Press the Windows key.Type “Settings” to find the Settings app.Open Settings.Click Update & Security.Click Recovery.Click Get Started.Use the Remove everything option.Chose Local reinstall.Select Wipe the drive after clicking Change SettingsClick Confirm.Click Next.Click Reset.Or is there another way to do it?Another question. I have an all-in-one compu

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How to wipe a hard drive

modder I already used kill-disk. The deletion is done, I need to reinstall everything.

 

Windows 10 recovery doesnt wipe my hard-disk

Hi, to clean install Windows you need to create a bootable flash drive or other medium from which to boot your PC. That's covered at Step 1 of the tutorial shown below (Clean Install..)

Windows 10 Tutorial Index
- searchable list of tutorials - search that page for
clean install
and you will see this as 2nd link found
Clean Install Windows 10

At step 13/14 you have the option presented to you where you can delete existing partitions.

Note: some suggest- as you have a desktop- physically disconnecting other drives just to ensure Windows is installed exclusively on the one drive.

 

How to wipe a hard drive

Thanks guys

My Special thanks goes out to all those involved with posting a reply on this thread.


I have been helped tremendously by a few who suggested I take out the hard drive and clean it up on another system.


That is something I had not tried yet. I have another system readily available and it makes a lot of sense.


I do have a few questions though: After I take out the hard drive and connect it to a new system,


Will I be able to run something more advanced than the built in OS drive manager to more completely wipe the drive (i.e. kill disk)?


What I am asking is: Can I run "kill disk" on the old hard drive from the other computer instead of the Windows program that does the same thing?


I am going to try to disconnect the hard drive today, but I don't know if running the kill disk program from the other computer would be the most efficient and complete way to clean the drive.


Is that something that I would even want to do, Peet? Would that work? What do you think, cheese?


Does kill disk cost money? Do I get the free download off that site you gave me, 2wicked?