Did the exact same thing yesterday prior to seeing this video. Command Prompt or Powershell are powerful tools. As Carey pointed out, exercise care as if you choose the wrong drive then it is goodbye to data unless you have a backup of said drive data 😪
I was hoping you would show us how to completely and physically wipe and reinitialize a drive so as to make recovery of data almost impossible. At least without special forensic data recovery tools. Can you cover this in a future video?
Good tutorial. After selecting the disk i want to Clean, type list disk again to verify there's a star on the disk I'm going clean. Especially if you have multiple drives in the list. Might save you from cleaning the wrong disk.
Saving this for when I get a brand new laptop one day, for nuking the bloated Windows pre-installed and reinstalling a clean, debloated copy that I tweaked myself.
When I've worked with wiping or formatting drives or installing an OS on a system with multiple drives, I'll unplug everything except the drive I'm working with (and the CD or USB I'm booting from with the necessary utilities). What about recovery of deleted partitions, or, the prevention of that? As in, if someone was to run a utility like TestDisk or PhotoRec on a drive with its partitions cleaned, does it clean them properly so they're unrecoverable? (In my limited experience when doing this with a hard drive, it has to write to the entire drive to scrub it clean, which is why I've liked DBAN, but I don't really have experience yet doing it with SSDs, and I've heard DBAN isn't the right utility for those.)
Good video. Will this work on an old c drive which windows partitioned when windows was installed? Windows creates a couple of partitions when it instals and i cant seem to remove these partitions. Thanks.
The Clean command has variants that do different things. 'Clean All' will reset the drive AND zero write all data to make it non-recoverable, and should be used for sensitive data on drives.
Does it show in the list using DISKPART as demonstrated in this video? If not, the drive has failed, the cable is bad, the drive is not getting power or you need to try a different sata plug on your motherboard.
Carey, I have some Seagate, model ST373454LW, 68 pin, wide SCSI drives that I want to erase. But no one (I searched) makes a cable or adapter that will let me plug it in to a USB port. I want to erase the drives, and either sell them (if they have any value) or toss them. Is there any solution, other than purchasing a SCSI card or an old computer with built-in support? I have the cables to connect the drives to a SCSI controller. But I have no SCSI controller. Any suggestions?
@@CareyHolzman I will search for a very old computer where I can make this work. It looks like that is my only option. Thanks for your reply. I would have wasted time and money, struggling to get a card working in a current computer.
If your PC has a PCI slot, or you have a slightly older machine with PCI you can pick up fairly popular SCSI controllers(like Adaptec units) pretty cheap from the usual places. Getting them to work with an OS even as new as Windows 10/11 is doable. Too much to explain via a comment, but if you’re fairly tech savvy and search the internet for the right information regarding connecting 68 pin SCSI drives to modern systems you will eventually find the answers you seek. I believe Adaptec also made a PCIe SCSI controller but they’re not cheap.
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Did the exact same thing yesterday prior to seeing this video. Command Prompt or Powershell are powerful tools. As Carey pointed out, exercise care as if you choose the wrong drive then it is goodbye to data unless you have a backup of said drive data 😪
I was hoping you would show us how to completely and physically wipe and reinitialize a drive so as to make recovery of data almost impossible. At least without special forensic data recovery tools. Can you cover this in a future video?
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Thank you. I had a 500GB 7200 RPM HDD that I had so much trouble formatting. Now it's working perfectly
You're welcome!
@@CareyHolzman It even worked on 2 USB thumbdrives.
Thanks! Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Good tutorial. After selecting the disk i want to Clean, type list disk again to verify there's a star on the disk I'm going clean. Especially if you have multiple drives in the list. Might save you from cleaning the wrong disk.
Very good life lesson!!!! Thank you!
Hi ,Thanks for the tutorial, I appreciate it. I have a question ,what make and model is your keyboard and mouse on your bench. Thank You
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Saving this for when I get a brand new laptop one day, for nuking the bloated Windows pre-installed and reinstalling a clean, debloated copy that I tweaked myself.
this ties in to my diy post on i put up on the forums perfect timing!!
This can also save some USB flash drives that might have been corrupted or have disk protection on them
👍great video
right-click Start - Disk Management
Thanks Carey.
When I've worked with wiping or formatting drives or installing an OS on a system with multiple drives, I'll unplug everything except the drive I'm working with (and the CD or USB I'm booting from with the necessary utilities).
What about recovery of deleted partitions, or, the prevention of that? As in, if someone was to run a utility like TestDisk or PhotoRec on a drive with its partitions cleaned, does it clean them properly so they're unrecoverable? (In my limited experience when doing this with a hard drive, it has to write to the entire drive to scrub it clean, which is why I've liked DBAN, but I don't really have experience yet doing it with SSDs, and I've heard DBAN isn't the right utility for those.)
Thank you for this video.
Good video. Will this work on an old c drive which windows partitioned when windows was installed? Windows creates a couple of partitions when it instals and i cant seem to remove these partitions. Thanks.
It should
The Clean command has variants that do different things. 'Clean All' will reset the drive AND zero write all data to make it non-recoverable, and should be used for sensitive data on drives.
Hi Carey... do you have a solution to SECURE ERASE a drive for a sale to a stranger?
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@@CareyHolzman Thank you.
Would wiping a drive like that prevent someone with a bit of knowledge from restoring and reading my data after I sell the drive?
No absolutely not.
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Thanks
The drive I want to wipe ( SATA 1Tb) doesn't show in the disk management window. Any clues would be appreciated.
Cheers Eric
Does it show in the list using DISKPART as demonstrated in this video? If not, the drive has failed, the cable is bad, the drive is not getting power or you need to try a different sata plug on your motherboard.
@@CareyHolzman It looks like the drive is a dud. I plugged a different drive into the SATA cable and it popped up in File Manager.
Thx
Carey, I have some Seagate, model ST373454LW, 68 pin, wide SCSI drives that I want to erase. But no one (I searched) makes a cable or adapter that will let me plug it in to a USB port.
I want to erase the drives, and either sell them (if they have any value) or toss them. Is there any solution, other than purchasing a SCSI card or an old computer with built-in support?
I have the cables to connect the drives to a SCSI controller. But I have no SCSI controller. Any suggestions?
SCSI is dead, even the SCSI controller cards are hard to find, and many will not run with a modern operating system.
@@CareyHolzman I will search for a very old computer where I can make this work. It looks like that is my only option.
Thanks for your reply. I would have wasted time and money, struggling to get a card working in a current computer.
If your PC has a PCI slot, or you have a slightly older machine with PCI you can pick up fairly popular SCSI controllers(like Adaptec units) pretty cheap from the usual places. Getting them to work with an OS even as new as Windows 10/11 is doable. Too much to explain via a comment, but if you’re fairly tech savvy and search the internet for the right information regarding connecting 68 pin SCSI drives to modern systems you will eventually find the answers you seek. I believe Adaptec also made a PCIe SCSI controller but they’re not cheap.
A big hammer springs to mind 😂
@@Moddage I found over 100 PCI-E SCSI controller cards on Ebay at about £27 ea. Branded HP
I have successfully used disk clean command when the disk management just didn't work !
Keep it in the “ What now book ” …...
How about a micro SD card?
Yes, this works as described regardless of the type of media.
When I do anything like this, I physically disconnect the drive(s) not affected, leaving only the boot drive and the drive that I'm fiddling with.
Everything can be done in "diskpart".
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Thanks!