Greetings. I need to erase my hard drive - 'C' - which has bugs that I can't sort out, and do a fresh install of Windows 7. I have tried the
wipe disk facility - wipe entire drive - but though it is willing to wipe my 'E' drive completely it won't do the 'C' drive except for the free space.
Can anyone tell me if CCleaner can do a complete erase, or if not, how to do it some other way. I have tried Win7 Diskpart, but I don't
understand it. I need a method that simple souls like me can use! I would appreciate any advice,
Best Wishes, William thompson
CC won't wipe the system drive © as the system drive is running the software that wipes the system drive......
If you want to do a full erase on the system drive then you'll have to attach it to another pc as a secondary drive and then wipe it. (One pass only, please.)
Why don't you just install W7 on your current drive? If you do a full format W7 will overwrite the drive with zeroes before it starts the install.
Greetings, Augeas, Yes, I should have thought of that. I much appreciate your help, Many thanks and best wishes, William thompson
Does Drive Wipe just return Windows 7 to an unused form? It removes any information that use may have put on it?
Nergal
July 29, 2013, 5:43pm
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drive wipe will either
wipe freespace: which is the space not taken up by live files aka Overwrite (causing file recovery of deleted files to be less likely)
or(on non-main harddrive only) Wipe Entire drive: completely erases and overwrites (see above) the drive leaving it completely empty.
So, in short, to answer your question, no.