How to fully wipe all disk data - diskpart

Use diskpart to completely wipe a disk clean and prepare it for a re-install of an operating system. It's important to completelty erase all data from a disk before re-installing and selling your system on. Data Privacy is necessary and we show you how to completely wipe your disk clean.

[@alulobo]

Thank you! I've seen videos guiding through "partitions" wipe procedures, while this is the right one guide I need.

[@Richhardworker]

used this as a reference for all that forgotten knowledge. Ty for making this.. went to re-research this topic... DISKPART is truly amazing!!

[@daisyduck8593]

THX for the video ! I recommand three more steps before selling a harddrive. How I do it: 1) Complete format with windows 10 2) A software to check if the drive has a failure 3) Bitlocker Encryption with strong password with windows 10 pro 4) clean all with diskpart Now you can be sure it's a good drive and no one can read your data. :)

[@Erador_]

What's point of all those steps, if "clean all" literally override the whole disk. All "footprints" will be removed. I can understate formatting with Windows 10, but BitLocker... Correct me if wrong

[@daisyduck8593]

@@Erador_ It's always better to do important things twice or three times (in a different way)... Because it's always possible that 1 or 2 steps are not working well...

[@adoksym]

You can also enter "detail disk" to make sure you have selected the correct drive.

[@molonlabe8792]

Windows refuses disk initialization. Complains that it can't fill request due to a fatal device hardware error. But the device appears in device manager and working properly. Is the drive kaput? Or not?

[@g194g]

How long will it take for a 1 tb SSD 560 MB/s ?

[@asdf-jo4vv]

How long approximately wiil it take for a 10tb HDD?

[@KILLCRUSH28]

its works for nvme ?=

[@wazymux1994]

I cant find my disk after cleanall, How to fix this?

[@blackjack6434]

What happens when your in the middle of cleaning and you click out of it

[@nikkojaycalixtro]

Access denied in clean all. How to fix this ?

[@danielbill1204]

Did you run as administrator?

[@russeljohnson9616]

can anything be recovered after doing this

[@jesuschristiskingforever7142]

Not if you do clean all, but it can be recovered if you do clean

[@24321619]

Very odd that this can't be done within the windows itself, through the disk management control panel.

[@trunk2874]

How long approximately will it take for 1tb hdd sata 3 7200rpm

[@trunk2874]

@@martin.polomsky mine took 2hr

[@dipacalypse1092]

fu### me!! I wish i had read this before. . .

[@gippys1]

@@dipacalypse1092 me too

[@Rahul-gv1mp]

me too

[@dragonchato8467]

@@dipacalypse1092 me too...

[@geraldgeautreaux8033]

my computer has been broke a month now, a update fuckup, deleated everything. right now im working from a second pc, i can only work from boot disk dos, and diskpart. you would think the people that make these video;s would put themselves in your shoes. not everyone can ask windows to run a fucking program and everything be alright