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How to wipe a hard drive completely on Windows 11?
Hi everyone, I'm planning to sell my Windows 11 device and want to securely wipe the hard drive to ensure none of my personal data is recoverable. I've heard that just deleting files or even rese...
If you're a bit more tech-savvy and want to wipe hard drive on Windows 11 PC using Command Prompt, here's the lowdown:
- Open Command Prompt as an admin (right-click Start, select Command Prompt (Admin)).
- Type diskpart and hit Enter.
- Type list disk and find the number of the drive you want to wipe (be super careful here!).
- Type select disk X (replace X with your disk number).
- Then type clean to wipe the drive (this is it—the moment of truth!).
- You can type exit to get out of Diskpart.
Pro Tip: If you're wiping the drive to sell or give it away, consider using the clean all command instead of just clean. It takes longer but it overwrites all data to make it much harder to recover, which is especially handy if you had sensitive info.
Have a tough time resetting pc with native commands, regardless of which path you choose to reset. Think I'll try command path and clean all b4 I return to factory.
