Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

Brink said:

Hello Benteke, :)

Yep, you could boot to a command prompt at boot, then run the "clean" command to wipe the system disk. :)

Yeah, thanks Brink.... That's the part I was a little unsure about. I appreciate the confirmation :)

I was getting increasingly frustrated with problems of crashing following a fresh install of Windows 7.

Subsequently I've done a lot of reading and used DISKPART to perform format of a hard drive.

When I did a clean all. It was taking so long I hit Ctrl C but nothing seemed to happen. In the end I forced a shutdown and the hard drive no longer appears.

Is there a way to recover it?

Brink said:

Hello Rhothgar, :)

Yeah, it's not a good idea to interrupt a clean all command like that.

Do you see the drive listed in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc)?

Resolved thankfully by using another drive as master and accessing disk management. It must have reset it somewhere.

i had windows 10 64 bit build i dont know. suddenly it didnt work so i installed linux mint. great software. now i wanted to use windows 10 and linux mint as dualboot. i thought about new install starting with windows 10 but grub 2 analraped my mbr. i had to low level format somehow my ssd. this solution rescued me:

starting windows 10 on pendrive, repair, command prompt interface, diskpart, list disk, select disc, clean.

clean all is not neccessary. damn nice tool is this diskpart.

Thanks a lot, a video will be better because i am not skillful about computer

I am very lucky on my Laptop I have Disk Sanitizer, it does the job for me, I just press f10 and there it is under Security. Makes life a little easier