" HDD Wipe Problems....."

[asifish]

Current date and time: 06.11.2010 17:00:50
Hard Disk Wipe Tool 2.35 build 1178; http://hddguru.com
Device details for WDC WD3200AAJS-00YZCA0 01.03B01 [320,07 Gbytes]

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Can someone help please ?

I currently have windows 7 and as you may know it creates a partition. Also i have viruses and like to wipe my HDD to make a clean install and create new partition rather then installing evrything on my C drive. I started running Hard Disk Wipe Tool 2.35 build 1178 and i've got this error.... please help i need to erase my whole HDD...

Many Thanks

[scratchy]

You need to remove the existing partition. W7 has protection that does not allow direct write access to a drive with a partition table.

Right click on computer, select manage, then disk management.

Right click on each partition on the drive and select 'Delete Partition'

Once this is complete, you should be able to wipe it.

Do you know you will lose all your data PERMANENTLY when doing this?

[tonyc]

asifish,

Download DBAN, a bootable Linux based distribution, that will wipe your drive you don't have to worry about Windows 7 getting in the way.

By the way, did you know that in changed the behavior of the format command in Windows Vista. The default Format type "Full Format", will wipe the drive that is being formatted? You can attach the drive to a functioning, safe Windows system and use the Windows GUI to format the drive...DO NOT check "Quick Format" and your drive will be wiped. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961

This has also been verified to work in Windows 7.

TonyC

[BlackST]

I would use a pc, start DOS and use MHDD. If it reports problems too, the drive have to be serviced.