How to wipe clean a drive with NTFS on it

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On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:51:25 GMT, Intiglietta SoloLinko
wrote:

I installed Win98 after deleted that tremendous WinXP. I inserted
Win98's CD in the drive, and selected "format" option, it taked about
two hours with a 80Gb...

Why waste your time, if you are very sure your hard disk has no bad
sectors. You an use Ranish's Part.exe to do a format without
verification. Even if you use Part.exe to verify, it is certainly much
faster.

http://www.ranish.com/part/

But be advised that Part.exe is not for the novice - RTFM first.

HTH

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Hi..
I was in the same problem that you are talking about and looking ahead for wipe ntfs drive tool because I wanted to sell my laptop, but before I wanted to remove all confidential file from my system beyond recovery. One of my friend suggested me a tool that really works that is Wipe Disk software. You can wipe your ntfs drive by utilizing this tool. It is proficient to wipe out all data from ntfs drive.You can download this tool from the link provided below.

Website:-"http://www.wipedisk.net/ntfs-drive.html"
download:-"http://www.wipedisk.net/download/wipedisk-drive-wipe.exe"

wrote:
Hi..
I was in the same problem that you are talking about and looking
ahead for wipe ntfs drive tool because I wanted to sell my laptop,
but before I wanted to remove all confidential file from my system
beyond recovery. One of my friend suggested me a tool that really
works that is ........... You can wipe your ntfs drive
by utilizing this tool. It is proficient to wipe out all data
from ntfs drive. You can download this tool from the link
provided below.

The thread you're replying to is seven years old, and
yet the free DBAN continues to be able to erase
disks. There's no need for commercial tools.

You also have the option of overwriting a partition
with "dd", which is also free.

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

dd if=/dev/zero of=\\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition4

If you had three disks, that would be erasing the third disk,
and erasing the fourth partition (as listed in the partition table).
That particular command would not harm the other partitions.
The extent of the erasure is controlled by the information
in the MBR (Sector 0) of the disk.

And if the "all zeros" pattern is not sufficient, the
"dd" program also has a /dev/random option, for writing
random data over the area defined as a partition.

So there's really no need of commercial software at all.
It's covered. Either tool can give you an erasure option.

If you feel nervous doing a single pass erasure, three
passes of /dev/random should do it.

The "dd" program is also available on just about any
Linux LiveCD, and by running the LiveCD, you can even erase
C: on the PC.

One advantage of DBAN, is the ability to erase all the
drives (in parallel) in a computer at the same time.
Which reduces the wait time for the job to finish.

Paul

On Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:10:59 AM UTC+8, Katy wrote:
Hi All, could someone tell me how I can format (wipe off) a drive with
NTFS? I am used to booting with a win98 bootdisk and formatting in DOS. I
think I've heard somewhere the NTFS file system cannot be seen in DOS?
Anyway, I couldn't see the drive when I tried last night and now I'm
stumped.

I was thinking of using partition magic to change it from NTFS to FAT32 and
then it probably would work but is there a quicker way? I have 3 drives
that I want to clean off the total drive and give away because I don't want
any info on the drive. One is a generic drive from a Gateway machine and
the other 2 are Western Digital.

Could anyone help me?

TIA for your help........... katy

Currently AOMEI Partition Assistant home edition is a freeware and can wipe the drive under windows, anyone needed can refer to this tutorial: http://www.disk-partition.com/help/wipe-data.html

On 10/01/2013 01:44, wrote:
Hi..
I was in the same problem that you are talking about and looking ahead for wipe ntfs drive tool because I wanted to sell my laptop, but before I wanted to remove all confidential file from my system beyond recovery. One of my friend suggested me a tool that really works that is Wipe Disk software. You can wipe your ntfs drive by utilizing this tool. It is proficient to wipe out all data from ntfs drive.You can download this tool from the link provided below.

Website:-"http://www.wipedisk.net/ntfs-drive.html"
download:-"http://www.wipedisk.net/download/wipedisk-drive-wipe.exe"



ccleaner also wipes disks with its drive wiper feature.

It has various options from 'free space only to 'entire drive', from
'simple overwrite' up to 'very complex overwrite', 1 pass, 3 pass, 7
pass, 35 pass,

The only downside is that it takes many hours to wipe a drive. I doubt
there is any quicker way to thoroughly wipe a disk though.