How to Erase Hard Drive with Zeros in Command Prompt

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Nice one Brian and good to hear you specify giving away to a friend and makes it HARD to recover... obviously a forensic specialist would more than likely achieve a good rebuild but I've seen you mention DoD standards in another post here... in any country and Gov agency it's all about Policy Policy Policy which if highly sensitive will include secure destruction such as drive crushing and shredding as I know you are aware... cheers again for a great method for the home user helping out friends for a giveaway 👍

Good video Brian! Thanks for sharing it with us.👍😎JP

I have a 500GB SSD that was partitioned into 2 X 250GB. I’m trying to erase the partition but my system won’t see it as a temp partition but rather as a permanent partition and won’t allow me to make it 500GB again. Will writing the hard drive with 0’s overwrite all partitions?

I’m trying to do this for a bit locked hard drive so I can use it for myself. I’ll post if it works. This is still good to know for future use. Thank you.

Hello. Thank you for the video. I have an old 500gb HDD i'd like to erase. It has a partition on it with a seperate drive labled System Reserved D: or something similar that is only 100mb and the rest of the drive (460GB) is E:. How do I format the entire drive? If I use format e: /fs:NTFS /P:2 will that only zero wipe the E partition or the entire drive that E is on?

Bri your the win master nice one , thanks for that one ☝️

Very informative Thank-you for the very detailed, easy to follow tutorial.

mine wont format Brian as its protected i pulled it out long time ago and it put protection on it so wont format it ???? tried both wont go says it write protected ive had it long time wont erase it ever done everything to try change it

Is there a bat file that can be written to automate the entire disk formate without having to monitor the process?

Hi Brian
I tried what you showed with my flash drive (32G) , but it says that my drive is in raw and it wont format .....i'm stuck.
Oh and by the way ....great vids
Thanks

Britec09, I love using "CMD", this works, "BUT", ( I use the nasty little word "but") we must be sure Windows is up to date, otherwise use a Windows boot disk to access the command line or use a third party bootable program. Windows will always find a way to update in the middle of a Command line "Clean All" or "Format fs=ntfs". We could always unplug our LAN or Wi-FI as I am learning . Still it worth it to use Windows bootable Disk or PartedMagic on a USB device. It's safer and efficiently faster at least for large hard drives. As for USB Flash drives your way is the best within a Windows OS.

does a full format also zero out the hard drive?

I have a WD external passport ssd drive that is passworded protected. I haven’t been able to come up with the correct password to unlock it. Will what you did in this video by using 0’s to erase the drive work for my WD passport work? I don’t care about what is on the drive. I would just like to be able to again used the the drive.

I just did this with a ssd, will my laptop be ok?

Thanks mate!

I tried the first step to wipe out windows 10 Free version off of my 1TB HDD and it worked.
Out of all the guides to wipe out the HDD I researched, this method works!
(It only works if you have the actual Windows 10 product key). Windows 10 Free version doesn’t allow you to use this function in command prompt. Hope I helped.

Is this safe to do to my old laptop C: disk? I want to get rid of all the data possible before giving it away

Can this be deployed to an AD network from a main server?

Great video, especially as I want to erase a drive using another machine...