{"id":2621,"date":"2024-01-15T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2024-01-15T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:25:13","slug":"win-10-11-clean-drive-overwrite-files-with-0s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2024\/01\/15\/win-10-11-clean-drive-overwrite-files-with-0s\/","title":{"rendered":"Win 10, 11 clean drive overwrite files with 0s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To clear everything on a hard drive by writing zeros 3 times on all bytes. Approx 1 hour per 350 gb, but probably a lot longer? (Note: you will never get anything back after this)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open cmd as administrator<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><em>Type:<\/em> diskpart<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><em>Type:<\/em> list disk<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Note the number of the disk you are trying to wipe clean<\/li>\n<li><em>Type:<\/em> select disk [number]<\/li>\n<li>Double check the disk number because this is going to be irreversible<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><em>Type:<\/em> clean all<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To securely overwrite the free space on your hard drive (where old files can be recovered) and never be able to recover them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open cmd as administrator. The following command cleans the c: drive<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><em>Type:<\/em> cipher \/w:c:<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\/W Removes data from available unused disk space on the entire<br \/>\nvolume. If this option is chosen, all other options are ignored.<br \/>\nThe directory specified can be anywhere in a local volume. If it<br \/>\nis a mount point or points to a directory in another volume, the<br \/>\ndata <em>on that volume<\/em> will be removed.<\/p>\n<p>End<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To clear everything on a hard drive by writing zeros 3 times on all bytes. Approx 1 hour per 350 gb, but probably a lot longer? (Note: you will never get anything back after this) Open cmd as administrator Type: diskpart Type: list disk Note the number of the disk you are trying to wipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}