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How do you clean the MBR on removal drives.
I can't remember what the command was. Trying to get rid of trojan, but also need to clean all my USB drives. I'm noticing all information seems to have been removed or moved so far down the list i...
If you want to completely wipe the MBR on a USB drive, the easiest way is to use diskpart in Windows. Open Command Prompt as administrator, then run:
- diskpart
- list disk (this shows all drives, so double‑check you pick the correct one)
- select disk X (replace X with the number of your USB drive)
- clean (this wipes the partitions and the MBR)
After that, you can re‑initialize and reformat the drive in Disk Management. Keep in mind this erases everything on the drive, so back up anything important first.
Clean MBR, not delete all partitions.