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diff --git a/content/posts/zeroing-drive-on-windows.md b/content/posts/zeroing-drive-on-windows.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbab561 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/zeroing-drive-on-windows.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: "Zeroing out a drive on Windows" +date: 2020-08-28T20:34:00 +tags: ["Guides", "Servers", "Snippets", "Software", "Windows"] +--- + +Recently I sold a couple more of the hard drives that made up my SnapRAID array back when I had a Linux powered home server. Wanting to check over the drives one last time for SMART info, and bad sectors I noticed I hadn't wiped the drive, and there were still readable files and partitions there. + +Previously, I did this all via a USB3 dock on my Linux laptop using `dd`, but today we're on a Windows desktop, so let the adventure commence! + +The command we want to run, in an elevated command prompt is: +``` +format g: /fs:NTFS /p:1 +``` +In this example, we're formatting drive **G**. The `/p` parameter here is what's doing the zeroing, indicating the number of passes. + +Now to **fully** clean a drive, after the above you can wipe the partition table from the disk by running: +``` +start > run > cmd +diskpart +list disk +select disk 1 +clean +``` + +And you're done.
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