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After installing Windows 10 on a new solid-state drive, I wanted to connect another drive an old NTFS formatted disk I used as a data second disc, not boot disc, in work with Windows XP operation system.
But Windows 10 doesn't recognize the second disc, displays blue screen, runs into search problem solution procedure, with no result. BIOS recognizes the second disc. When I disconnect the second disc, Windows 10 regularly boots-up to the desktop window screen. By way of the free disk erasure DiskGenius Free Edition, you can completely wipe hard drives and removable drives via rewriting sectors to 00 or random characters. Thus, files on the hard drive cannot be recovered by any method, ensuring privacy.
Connect the removable device to your computer and make sure it can be recognized by Windows. Install and run DiskGenius from your PC and you can see all local disks and portable devices on the main interface. Select the external hard drive or SD card you want to erase data, and select " Erase Sectors " option under Tools menu. Select items to fill disk sectors and click Erase button on the popped-up window.
There are four options to fill disk sectors in the drop-down list, i. You can either choose one from "00, FF and Random Data", or specify item to fill disk. DiskGenius asks confirmation for the action, click Erase button to continue.
Since the process wipes data permanently, you should make sure you are erasing correcting disk and important files have been backed up. Step 6. The disk eraser starts wiping data on selected drive and the process may take long time if the disk has very large capacity.
In this example, you can learn how to wipe a computer's main hard drive where Windows is installed. Operating system does not allow to erase system while it is running, and we can only wipe non-system partitions. The following steps show how to reboot computer to WinPE version directly and then erase system disk.
Launch the free disk wipe tool DiskGenius from your Windows computer. It takes about two minutes to create booting information for Windows PE, please wait it to complete with patience.
Once the application is ready to reboot, it prompts to restart and backup data. Click " OK " button and computer reboots. Select computer's system hard drive where Windows is installed and click " Erase Sectors " option which can be found under Tools menu. Click Erase button and the software starts wiping the disk. Note: Once the process finishes, the computer cannot boot to system, as system partition have been erased. You need to make a clean system installation on the hard disk.
Case 3: Wipe a single file or folder on hard drive. Erasing an entire hard drive takes too much time, and you don't have to do that if you just want to erase certain existing files on the disk. On account that deleting files by emptying Recycle Bin does not wipe data complete, we should do extra operation to make files unrecoverable. Files deleted in this way cannot be recovered by any recovery software or professionals. Let's have a close look at how to wipe files and folders:.
Launch DiskGenius again, and locate files you want to permanently delete. Select those files and right-click them to choose " Delete Files Permanently ". Click " Permanently Delete " button on the popped-up window. In order to completely delete the file, the application will refill hard drive sectors taken by the file during deletion.
By default, it overwrites data by filling zeros which can be modified to random data as well. Click " Delete " button to confirm the action to be done. Case 4: Erase deleted files only without affecting existing data. Erasing free space on hard drive overwrites lost files, which does not disturb existing files on the disk. This solution applies to those who just want to overwrite lost files only in order to make lost data unrecoverable. Select characters to overwrite disk space and click " Erase " button.
And it works well with different disks, like Dell, Seagate. AOMEI partition Assistant is not only a wiping tool, it has lots of feature for managing disk and computer.
For example, you can use it to create a bootable disk , once your computer run into some booting issues, you can boot from it and fix the problems.
And if you this method can be applied to other Windows system disk, including Windows 10, 8, 7. And for the Windows Server system disk, you can use the Server Edition to wipe it. Solve it Easily Now! Still Need Help?
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