With a few clicks, the hard drive was wiped clean. John felt a sense of relief wash over him, thinking that this would solve all his problems. He proceeded with the installation of Windows 7.
Follow the on-screen instructions to "Restore to Factory Settings" [29, 32].
To truly wipe a drive, you must overwrite every single sector with meaningless data (zeros, random characters, or multiple patterns).
Type select disk X (replace X with your drive number, usually 0) [9, 19, 26]. Type clean all and press Enter [9, 11, 19].
: Type select disk 0 (replace 0 with your actual drive number). Step 6 : Type clean all and press Enter.
Click Drive options (advanced) .