Questions tagged [wipe]
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How can I add current file size to the file name
I lost heaps of important data, plus failed backups etc. I did some recoveries but laptop drive had other plans, pushed data out of valid files + some recovery files had mismatched names or recovered ...
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Can I run a laptop with no OS from a bootable USB thumbdrive
I have a HP Stream 14 with windows 10 that's useless because windows takes up the entire 32 GB hard drive. Can I wipe it and run from a bootable thumb drive?
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Error formatting and creating partition on SSD in Ubuntu
After
Giving this Error:
Error formatting volume-Error wiping device: Failed to open the device
'/dev/sdb1' (udisks-error-quark,0)
How can I solve this problem and get the disk to format properly?
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If a hard drive has sectors that are corrupt or physically damaged, can those sectors be written over?
I have a bootable FreeBSD drive that I'm using to wipe the contents of a hard drive before donating the PC to my local thrift store. I'm using the following command to achieve this:
dd if=/dev/urandom ...
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Wiped and Reformatted external hard drive says it is completely full and windows cannot access it
I had a 1TB external HDD that developed an unresponsive folder. I used the errors checking tool on the properties tool tab, and that repaired the folder. I then moved the data off to a replacement ...
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What would trigger a Windows 10 PC to do a full factory reload automatically?
I got called out on a support call today where the computer had completely reloaded Windows 10 from scratch. All existing customer data, configuration, apps, etc were gone. There wasn't even anything ...
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Is there a Windows CMD command to wipe everything?
Is there a CMD command like rm -rf --no-preserve-root but for Windows? to wipe everything at once.
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Correct syntax for SDelete to wipe free space on the disk?
If I use this syntax:
sdelete64.exe -p 3 -c 1% C
...where:
-p 3 sets number of overwrite passes to 3
-c 1% sets amount of space to leave free to 1%
C Specifies drive letter C:
... I get the error ...
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Can I format my HD from running Linux system?
I have a Debian Linux PC which I would like to have the HD completely wiped.
Is it possible to do this while running Linux, without having to insert a removable media and boot it?
The HD to be format ...
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How to wipe all data on HDD (Windows 10 system partition)?
I am a bit surprised that I didn't found a canoncial (= recommended by Microsoft) way of doing this by searching Google but here we are:
I am tasked to delete all data safely from a Windows 10 ...
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Does Google Chrome wipe the profile data?
When turning off sync in Google Chrome, there's an option called "Clear bookmarks, history, passwords and more from this device".
Will this do data erasure, so that the data is completely ...
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Is it normal that running a "wipe free disk space" utility finishes quicker the more times it's used?
I used cipher /w:C to wipe the free disk space on my C drive. The first time I did it, it took say 2 days. Then two days later I used it, and it took 1.5 days. Then again I used it and it took 1 day. ...
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If a harddisk has format errors, would running disk wipe on it still wipe everything?
If a hardisk is connected via USB to Windows and I attempt to open it, Windows says it needs to be formatted before it can be used. If I ignore this message and run disk wipe on it (like the cipher ...
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Shredding an SSD (or: Is an SSD harder than a CD?)
I have a small office shredder which can destroy not only paper but also CDs and credit cards.
Can I use that to destroy an M2 SSD or will that break my shredder? In other words, are components of an ...
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What does the command "fsutil file createnew" really do?
In the Windows OS command line, when I need to quickly create a file of arbitrary size, I use the command:
fsutil file createnew <filename> <size_in_bytes>
I recently created a 100GB file ...
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