Ultimate guide to wipe your hard drive clean & remove all VIRUSES! Full walk thru

Sometimes, Windows is just too damaged to repair, no matter what you do. If you want to completely WIPE Windows and start over from scratch, watch this video, as I show you step-by-step how to do it! Enjoy!

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[HeribertoMillan-po]

Brother when I tell you I’ve been up all night trying to factory reset my computer because I’m getting ready to sell it… it’s now 1am and I been doing this since 4pm… I finally found your page and this was the answer after the factory reset refused to work… I truly thank you and appreciate the time you take out to give us this help…

[DavidOldenburg]

I've always wiped but now you have malware that can survive a full wipe. Crazy

[PhilWane]

Really helpful guide - thank you. I knew the general principles and have done installs in the past but I wanted something tailored to recent versions of Windows (specifically 11). Nice clear walkthrough and some good tips and explanations as to why you might want certain options. I wanted to do a fresh install as about to give a laptop to a relative so wanted none of my Microsoft account details left on it (home or work). If nothing else it would lead to confusing messages for my relative. Bonus tip was the benefits of setting up a local account on the machine as they will have a Microsoft Account but I do not know the details. We can now hand over a working laptop and sort that later if that's what they want. Thanks again. Now subscribed to your channel.

[kor]

I don't usually write any comments, but this video is incredible! Attention to detail, awesome pasing, excellent explanation and pretty cool tips along the way... It's just a well rounded awesome video with everything I was looking for. Thank you so much! Please keep helping people like me !

[DosBear]

Mission accomplished but I went about it in a much different way. I did what you recommended with regards to deleting all the partitions including the recovery partition and then I had to do everything else through command prompt/DOS. Luckily I could select the repair option & was able to access the DOS box. ;) It wouldn't let me format otherwise. I was able to use the same method as I did in order to fix a flash drive earlier in the day. Diskpart. Then once formatted I had to change it to GPT through DOS as well and like magic I now have windows installed. I can't thank you enough for your help as much of your advice came in very handy. I will stick to using local account for now and avoid Microsoft as you recommend as well. So I have a wiped internal hard drive now and that's just fine by me. Thanks man.

[thelitepredator]

Omg I love this man your videos are so oooo helpful ❤❤❤ I'm a technican I enjoy watching you explain computer technician tasks 😊

[SAMZIRRA]

After watching the fourth video by this gentleman, I have decided that I trust him so much, I would join any cult he is leading, vote for any office that he’s running for, and probably let him borrow my car with my daughter. I trust him that much joking aside. This man has saved me hundreds probably hundreds of hours of grief and stress that I have been dealing with after building my first PC. I had several of those “God, where was this guy last month?!” moments.
Thank you sir for the help!

[rhondae]

I appreciate all of your videos/content. Thanks a lot. 👍 🙂

[JoseyStranded]

Perfect timing for me. I was just about to do this.

[D.von.N]

Some of the screens here ring the bell. I also reinstalled my Win10 earlier this year, also HP. But instead of going this complicated way, I downloaded their recovery tool, it needed a usb larger than 32GB and followed instructions. I had my data backed up previously. It took me throughout the entire process and got my Win10 freshly installed, whether it needed some extra driver or not. The manufacturer's own recovery tool should have contained all that was needed. That was my experience.

[Lecker_Pizza]

I just wanna from the depth of my heart, thank you so so much ❤️🙌. You have saved me, I thought i had no options when i was locked out of my pc after it crashed and the system was corrupted. I was worried for days thinking about another expensive bill to fix or buy a new pc. You have saved me time, money, stress. I wish i could buy you a crate of beers or something. I literally cannot thank you enough. ❤❤❤

[johnpedersen]

Thanks for making this video for most Windows users.
You told it a way so they can get a pc working again. ❤

[kitrodriguez]

Wasn't having too much issues. Nothing too major, but my reagentc was disabled and I couldn't enable it for whatever reason. Something probably happened to my Recovery Partition so I just shoved all my files in a 1TB HDD and clean installed Win11 with my ventoy drive. Obviously, everything works like new now.

Having a lil USB with everything you might need is sweet. 🤘

EDIT:

Also, a little bonus. My Windows 11 ISO is a little bit older so I didn't have to worry about MS account bypassiing. Made things easier for me. Updated everything when I got into Windows. ✌️

[timetriad]

Forget the Library computers… Admin rights are required to run that tool… because it uses DISKPART to wipe and format the UFD (USB Flash Drive).
Other than that, good video. 👍🏻 I run WDS with MDT from an ESXi Host VM.

[rhondae]

This video is is similar to your video from a month ago titled: "Windows PC company locked? Here's how to get around it!" That video saved me a lot of money. Following your video (DIY) instructions, I was able to unlock and restart my Dell computer after using the USB to download and copy "create windows 10 installation media" and then uploading it to my then locked Dell (2020) windows 10 computer. However, I did not have any important documents/files on this computer; therefore, I chose to wipe it clean. Lol 😊

[Techkomsan]

Great Video sharing for Windows users.

[k.chriscaldwell]

My PC’s hard drive melted down in the Spring of ‘22. All my data—SW, music, & files—is on other drives, SATA & USB. I have a Belarc file that tells me what I have installed and what versions.

New drive in, reload OS, install critical SW, and back up in less than 6-hours.

The key is having files on other drives and having backups.

[hughmartell]

Thanks very much for all your videos. I'm still using Windows 7- any suggestions for a repair?

[jmaros]

@ 16:02 I wish you asked the viewers to disconect the internet cable from their PC because it automatically connected me to the internet!

[emowoly]

I’m downgrading from 11 to 10 because my laptop is having a lot of bugs with windows 11 and this was really helpful thanks!! I’ve reset my computers before but I’ve never done a clean install from a usb and had no idea how to do it