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Doing multiple passes is excessive and mostly useless, let alone filling the drive with random data. The only way you can try to restore anything, after such an operation took place, is with an atomic-force microscope - this is, obviously, an extreme procedure, that will take months for even the smallest JPG file and the error rate (false-positives) is going to be immense (in other words - you won't get anything meaningful out of it). This is even more true for higher capacity models (higher density platters).
However, there is something called secure erase. This is an established ATA standard. This functionality is integrated into the drive itself. Not only is it even faster than a run of dd (as it's already hardware based and hardware > software, speed wise), it is also more secure, due to the ability of purging original bad sectors that have been reallocated! There are 2 versions: the vanilla (2001 and onwards) and the enhanced one (post 2004). So, if your drive was manufactured roughly 10 years ago - it is already very likely to support this feature.
As a side note on scenarios when you cannot always format and wipe the disk and have to relinquish ownership of a computer with OS intact (like resigning a job and returning the laptop), Scott Hanselman has noted down a checklist on activities to carry out before giving it up forever.
format can also be used to wipe individual drives with the /P option. For example to format the D: drive as NTFS and wipe the drive with zero then overwrite it again twice with random values you can use format D: /fs:ntfs /P:2
Another suggestion, for Macs, is to use Apple's Disk Utility program. It's included on the OS X install disc, so if you boot from that, you can open Disk Utility, select your drive, and erase it (there are some options for how many times to write over data and such).
Also, if you happen to have lots of important data, the easiest and fastest way can be to physically destroy the medium. A sledgehammer blow is much simpler than overwriting 1TB disk 15 times with random binary patterns.
At the end, there is probably less than 1 Go free on the disk, and you can fill it by copy/pasting various files (smaller and smaller), and at a certain point you will see something like "0 bytes remaining on the disk / disk full".
"I just bought a used Windows 7 computer from a yard sale. It has a bunch of stuff on it, which I don't need or would use. How to delete everything on Windows 7 to start from scratch? Or how can I wipe the computer and restore it to a factory-fresh state?"
When you buy a second-hand computer with data, decide to sell/give your computer to others, or your computer is full of trashes and becomes slow, you may want to delete everything off the computer on Windows 7/8/10.
To wipe a computer in Windows 7 or Windows 10, you can restore to factory settings, which allows you to keep the system but erase all personal data. If you'd like to delete everything on Windows 7 without CD, including the Windows system and data, you can make it in the way below.
How to delete everything on Windows 7 without CD, including the Windows operating system and personal files? Although Windows doesn't provide a feature for wiping data, you can erase all Windows laptop and PC data with a third-party tool, like EaseUS Partition Master.
EaseUS Partition Master is a comprehensive program that deletes all the data from a Windows OS computer with its "Wipe Data" function. You can wipe your system drives and other partitions with a WinPE bootable USB, letting your computer leave nothing behind and never recoverable.
Step 1. To create a bootable disk of EaseUS Partition Master, you should prepare a storage media, like a USB drive, flash drive or a CD/DVD disc. Then, correctly connect the drive to your computer.
Step 3. You can choose the USB or CD/DVD when the drive is available. However, if you do not have a storage device at hand, you can also save the ISO file to a local drive, and later burn it to a storage media. Once made the option, click the "Create" button to begin.
After successfully creating the bootable disk, you can boot the computer, press Del to enter DOIS, and set "USB Boot Device" as the first boot device. Then, you can use EaseUS Partition Master to erase your computer, including the system and data drives.
If you want to keep the clean Windows system on your computer as when you bought it, but need to wipe user accounts, personal files, customized settings, programs, and data to make it unrecoverable for privacy reasons, you can do it by restoring to factory settings.
To delete everything on Windows 7 and reset your computer to the factory state, you have to use an original Windows 7 installation media or recovery disk. If you don't have the disc, you will need to contact the computer manufacturer to order a new restore disc or skip to see how to delete everything on windows 7 without a CD.
Step 2. Press F8 repeatedly to open the Advanced Boot Options menu. At the Advanced Boot Options screen, choose "Repair Your Computer" and press Enter. This opens the System Recovery Options menu.
Step 1. Go to "Settings". Click "Change PC settings" > "General" > "Remove everything and reinstall Windows" > "Get started". If your operating system is "Windows 8.1", click "Update and recovery" > "Remove everything and reinstall Windows".
Step 3. Select "Just remove my files" or "Remove files and clean the drive". Cleaning the drive takes a lot longer. If you are giving the computer away, choose the latter one; while keeping the computer, choose the first one.
Way 1. Use EaseUS Partition Master Bootable USB to wipe the whole disk without CD, including the Windows and personal files. With this program, you can simply wipe your computer entirely with a few clicks.
Way 2. Restore Windows 7 to factory settings to its original configuration as it first was when it was purchased. This solution is a bit more complicated. Restoring factory settings often doesn't erase your data thoroughly; you still have to use a data wiping tool to delete everything on Windows 7/8/10.
I am experiencing a similar issue to Mothi, but not exactly. I have a policy set as a VMware policy, and I have used the "exclude data disks" under the advanced option, which should work in this case, since this is a VM, and the boot disk is not an independent disk (i.e, it can be snapshot). I am running three other VM's like this for testing, and they worked properly. I have drives C,L,S,T,U,X, and all I want to back up up is C, but all drives are captured in the backup and at full size.
I did notice then I set up the VMWare policy that it stated that the client needed to be running agent version 7.5 or newer, but my four test clients are running 7.0 (yes, I'll have to evenually update them anyway). All but the one did backup up just the boot drive as I wanted, and I have performed a test restore which worked. Has anyone had any issues using a client older than 7.0 with this option?
Only when you need to combine VM backup with application backup (e.g. SQL and Exchange) does the client software need to be installed in the VM, and also when you want to restore individual files to a VM.
I should have clarified that these are virtual servers running sql, so I am trying to back up only the C drive through the vm backup, and there are seperate policies covering the backup of the sql databases themselves.
None of those options are checked. It's a standard VMware backup, and the other clients in the same policy are excluding all but the c drive as they should. Its just the one thats giving me the headache. It must be some setting or condition on that particular VM perhaps?
Actually, it looks as though for this client (for some reason), it may have needed to run a full backup first. I just looked at the daily incremental for the one client, and its size is dramatically lower. So, I opened the client in the BAR, to see what is available for restore, and I can only expend and view data for the C drive. The other drives show up, but are not expandable, and show no data available for restore. Is this because I use the All_local_drives option, and it grabs the drive letters? But, I'll hold off saying its working for sure, until i see the next full backup run.
Any one knows what will happen to a Volume shadow copy disk on a VM during full and incremental backups? VM is W2K8 R2 with a boot disk + data disk + Vol Shadow Copy disk which keeps snapshots for data disk. A new VSS snapshot is created each day and oldest snapshot deleted when Vol shadow copy disk needs more space.
Maryanne, these VM's are SQL database servers, and I needed to have the data disks not captured along with the OS backup. I wanst sure how to actually "close" the discussion, without marking something as a solution. Did I miss that?
My answer was no, NBU installation is not needed.
The fact that you need NBU client installation for SQL backups is not related to 'Exclude data disks'.
It makes no difference that 7.0 is installed in the client.
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