clean XP hard drive using win 7 clean commands?

[msongs]

Hi, I want to clean/erase my xp hard drive. followed the tutorial on this forum and got to cmd - diskpart - select disk - clean all - exit but it weon't do anything. I put clean ), O clean, cean all O, etc and it just says Im not doing it right and so nothing happens. I can't find any similar instructions searching XP except for reformat and I want to clean totally not reformat. thanks!

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi, I want to clean/erase my xp hard drive. followed the tutorial on this forum and got to cmd - diskpart - select disk - clean all - exit but it weon't do anything. I put clean ), O clean, cean all O, etc and it just says Im not doing it right and so nothing happens. I can't find any similar instructions searching XP except for reformat and I want to clean totally not reformat. thanks!

msongs

Whats the difference to you in terms of clean totally vs format. Format erases the entire drive as well.

Ken J

 

[OldMX]

The "clean all" command takes a while to complete, like 1 hour for 250GB.

 

[msongs]

I would like to get it to work going to sell this computer and want the drive as clean as I can get it.

 

[Bill2]

If you cant get Clean all to work, use DBAN to completely nuke the hard drive.

DBAN Download | Darik's Boot And Nuke

 

[MacnamaraJack]

As bill2 says, DBAN you could use and i recently used it in a study i was carrying out and worked excellently and none of my hard disk could be reocvered.
You can take a look at a guide i just wrote below:
Macnamara

Hope it helps

 

[mborner]

Clean All is tricky. Once the command starts, there's nothing to let you know that it's processing. All you see is a blinking cursor. Don't let that fool you, it is in fact processing. You'll have to wait it out. When it completes (could take a couple of hours) It will let you know that the command was completed successfully.