How to format a hard drive or SSD - Delete everything from your hard drive

If you want to erase everything on your drive to free up space or to make sure your data isn't stolen, you can do that by formatting your hard drive or ssd. I hope this tutorial was helpful, but if you still have questions, comment below!

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[CraigJFW]

did he really just use child porn as an example of what you might want to delete off your hard drive!!! wtf

[timboprime]

4:14 EEuuh, I just want to clean my pc, this took a dark turn xD

[hamishwilson]

that is probably the last thing you would want to mention

[misterkrogan]

Wait... hold up did he really say child porn?😭😭😂😂😂
Wtf

[batterylow]

4:19 WE GOT EM BOYS WE GOT EM, thank me later this dude is a creep

[ThatNewGamer]

"Maybe you have child porn or childrens pictures you want to keep hidden". Bro wtf why is this guy acting as if this is an every day thing. "Oh if you're just selling your pc, remember to delete your childporn haha amirite."

[Sarrovok]

got real weird when you said you don't care about child porn

[ijean]

so i have a ssd and a hdd the os is atm on my hdd but i have new parts and i wont to format my ssd and put it in the new pc and instal new copy of windows on it so now my so should be on there, and if i than put my hdd with old os in my new pc wil i be able to format the hdd also so basicaly i have 2 new drives?

[Jmanx]

Thanks for doing this quick instead of trying to make it a 10 minute video. Quick to the point, thank you

[iansmith]

Will this delete the OS off of the HDD as well? I want to wipe my old HDD completely and reuse it for storage without the OS as I have that installed on my new SSD!

[XxIceQxX]

My window is Messing up big time. It keeps on freezing on me. Now if i get a SSD and use that for boot and format my original Hard drive, will i be able to use it again, Or will it not let me format the drive since it has OS on it?

[kevinbr]

Ok heres a question, i just installed new mobo and cpu, thing is im using same hdd. And it worked when i started but im hearing i should do a clean install of windows but i dont know how

[grnatmast]

He was joking about the childporn for u ppl actually upset he just seems so genuine haha

[scottsandlin]

Thanks for this! All other websites/videos wanted met o use other software to prevent files from coming back up.... I just wanted it to be completely deleted so I could use it for storage. Thanks again.

[MetalMatt]

My main C drive also has a back up partition on the letter E. Is it safe to change that letter to D?

[robertoserrato]

THANK YOU! I was trying to restore my SSD and there are a lot of lenghtly other ways I guess to do it (loading more programs), but this was easy.

[mfms_am]

Bro, I already did with the second way to format the hard disk, but its still cant be completed. It said "The format did not complete successfully". How?

[arclaudia]

but this will not truly erase the data what if i want to give my disk to others, is there a chance to make it back if i use this method? by the way i also know aomei software seems good but i have not tried it yet hope works great.

[kkrmson]

i want to delete everything from my hard disk drive cuz theres an annoying trojan virus thats messing my pc up, if i do this will it also remove the virus?

[Snypersystem]

So I have a partitioned drive that I couldn't figure out how to wipe the entire disk and kill the partitions. I made a mistake and deleted one of the partitions. Now its showing just one part of the drive and it's the backup drive on my PC. How do I wipe this drive and get the full size back to use as a backup on my PC without removing it?