Need Hard drive program?

John Farrell

Hi:
Can anyone recommend a free program that will format as well as remove the partitions on a hard drive?
(I would like to completely clean the SSD hard drive on my laptop and do a fresh install of Windows 10)

Ronnie Wong

@john-farrell,

You could just put the Windows 10 disk in the drive for installation. Then choose repair the installation (lower left corner). From there, you could choose

cmd.exe
type diskpart
type list disk
type select disk # (# = disk you want to wipe)
type clean (before running this type help clean and understand)
Look up the rest of the commands to format the partition and mark it active

I mention this because, it's free and fast, and built in....
afterwards you should be able to restart the computer with Windows 10 install disk and install..follow the directions.

John Farrell

Thanks Ronnie.

Ronnie Wong

@john-farrell,

I was just looking at this, if you do a custom install , it will also give you the option to just wipe the partitions and install on clean disk!