wipe hard drive?

[jackfast1]

how can i wipe my entire hard drive?

(i need to reinstall my OS)

the option for "entire drive"(drive C)is not selectable.

[Nergal]

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)

[Alan_B]

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:\