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diskpart's "clean all" hangs, no signs of HD activity
I am following the instructions at Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command to erase my entire HD before sending my laptop somewhere. In particular, I am issuing the diskpart command from a "command prompt at boot". I only have one HD on the laptop, Disk 0, and I selected it before "clean all". The above webpage says it takes approximately 1 hour per 300GB, and I have 300GB but it is still not done after 2 hours. However, I also note that the HD LED is not showing any activity.
Has the process hung due to the fact that I am cleaning the same HD that I am operating from? Is it advisable to forcibly shut the machine down, then haul the HD out into an external enclosure so that I can use another computer to look/see what was erased? Will it hurt the HD to interrupt such a (possibly hung) erasing procedure?
I am running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on a Toshiba Satellite Pro S750-008 (a.k.a. PSSERC-00800)