clean install (boot loop)

Hello zack d, welcome to Seven Forums!






As you have been fooling around with Linux you'll need to clean-up the mess; have a look at the info below; be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

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After you have made backups of everything you care to save and you want to do a real wipe "secure erase" to the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) have a look at this tutorial at the link below, it over-writes everything, all the old Windows code including the old Windows drivers, everything all data, giving you the best possible space to install Windows 7 to; it goes hand-in-hand with a clean install.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

How to Do a Clean Installation with Windows 7

zack d said:

edit nvm haven't clean all yet how long do you think a whole TB would take?

Close to 4 hours.

I'm glad you found a solution and thanks for the update.



The Linux boot-loader "Grub" causes a lot of issues with Windows and the only way to over-come some of them is to over-write the "Grub" files the way this method does.

chev65 said:

One thing I noticed about the diskpart commands is that the command "clean all" does not remove the partition breaks but the "clean" command does, or I should say that "clean all" did not remove the partition breaks for me. This was true on two different drives.

So it seems that to really clean a disk you need to first use the "clean" command then the "clean all" command.

Whats your take on this Bare Foot Kid?

Every time I've used it the drive is first marked as unallocated space and then zeroes are written to the entire HDD/SSD with the drive ending as unallocated space.

I assume this is why "clean all" cannot be done to a single partition on a HDD, IT WILL do the entire HDD/SSD; there has never been any kind of partition structure left when it has finished.

I have stopped the "clean all" about 10 minutes in to see and then the drive was still "unallocated" space.


There is a "partition specific" wipe "secure erase" function out-lined in Option Three of this tutorial at the link below if it is ever needed.

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

Hello again Rob.



That's interesting, if I can get some time, and can remember

I'll run some simulations in VirtualBox to see if I can replicate that.