how can i wipe my entire hard drive?
(i need to reinstall my OS)
the option for "entire drive"(drive C)is not selectable.
You must mount the drive in another computer in order to wipe it.
You cannot complete wipe a currently running system drive, this is both a safety aspect (think of howmany people would accidentally wipe their entire dirve) and a logical one (how can windows run a program that is wiping the windows itself)
Many people have also found that they cannot wipe a drive that is mounted on another computer but has a windows directory. The work around for this is to format the drive then to wipe free space)
Many people have also found that they cannot wipe a drive that is mounted on another computer but has a windows directory. The work around for this is to format the drive then to wipe free space)
I have no intention of trying this myself, but I guess that a Windows Directory has Junctions that are NOW DESIGNATING the Live Windows I am running under,
there when wiping a remote junction that designates ?:\Users\User\etc. it would destroy your own profile that is running.
Junctions are powerful friends, but your worst enemies ! !
On my Dual Boot Laptop I had both XP and Windows 7.
Whichever was Live considered itself to be C:\ and the other to be M?:\ (my memory is hazy)
The LinkMagic utility showed me that all Junctions within M?:\ were targeting what I had in C:\