Need Hard drive program?

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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)

@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.

Thanks Ronnie.

@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!