Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

I had downloaded a while back one of those software hack things and didn't like it showing up in my scans. i.e. PUP flag. So I deleted all of those files. But running a scan on an external hard drive, those PUP files had been sitting in the recycle bin or whatever $Recycle on the hard drive.

So I wanted to do a wipe on the drive to clean all of the data off and reload my data. I ended up just doing a "Clean", then I set it to MBR, then I did the LONG format. Well that thing took an entire day to do the LONG format as it is a 750GB drive. So I think I'll skip the DOD 3 pass wipe as that will be like 3 days.

I got real low GB hard drives to keep as spares to use to download files that may be questionable. That way doing a DOD 3 pass wipe to clean it up and reinstall the cloned image wouldn't take too long.

But hopefully doing a "Clean", resetting it to MBR, and doing a long format will erase any and all viruses or malware that may be hanging around somewhere on the drive.

I've got Acronis True Image I've used to wipe drives. They have different options. Like the DOD 3 pass wipe. And also a single pass that I think writes all zeros. Only thing is I'm thinking that doesn't touch the MBR section. So I guess do the "clean" first before doing a wipe.

If doing a single "wipe" is that the same thing as just doing a "long" format?

hi! You have a great tutorial! I would like to know what is the difference between the command "clean", "clean all" from the "quick format" and "format". And is it possible to run these commands (clean, clean all, format) without using diskpart and using the GUI. The command "delete volume in disk management is that the same? Sorry for my English (I hardly know him)

Hi guys.

I need to perform clean all on my only HDD so i can clean install Win7 before i sell my PC. I understand and have tried running a command prompt at boot in safe mode but two things happened. One, i still had to enter my windows password to log on before i got to the command prompt. Second, despite the procedure i got the message;

Virtual Disk Service error:
Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot,
system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume.

Any ideas?

Many thanks.

Thanks for the welcome Brink and thanks for the tips.

Il see if it works.