Resolved Want to only nuke a partition any other then DBAN

I'm going to wipe the drive and restore on my old Laptop. I wanted to use Dariks boot and nuke.
From what I can see, it nukes a drive, not just a partition. I have one drive, but 4 partitions. I don't want to nuke the partition with the image of the new drive I'm going to restore from. I just want to over write the C: partition.
Since DBAN doesn't do it, what other software can I use that's like DBAN but will only wipe a certain partition?

Thank you,
Chris.

 

Hi, Is this what you want:http://www.pcdisk.com/
EASUS is another one. Neil.

 

pcdisk (or easus) doesn't write data on the drive to wipe it.

Thank you,
Chris.

 

Thank you for the correction and link. I have a laptop with 4 partitions. I want to wipe the C: drive and restore from the original image on another partition.

I see one issue might be, the link you posted says: "The boot and system partition cannot be wiped. "

On my laptop this would be the C: drive?

Thank you,
Chris.

 

I was thinking. I could take my HDD out of the laptop, put it in my desktop. Format C: (using Win 7), then run Ccleaner "wipe Mode" on that partition. Take it out and put it back in the Laptop. Use "One key Rescue" on the Laptop to install the image?

Chris.

 

Doesn't your factory restore menu give you the option to reformat your C drive?

 

Yes, reformat but not overwrite. I want to make it so when I sell it, the information is unrecoverable.
Plus I got a bunch of virus from legal torrents I downloaded.
I know I don't have to, but for my piece of mind, and because I want to, I would like to have the viruses overwritten and not just not pointed to before I reinstall.

I want to have a clean, install on a drive that can't get my account stuff I had on it.
Some would say, "don't worry about it." They are right, I don't want to worry about it. I want it so when it leaves my hands, I don't have to worry about it.

 

When I first bought the computer, before I did anything, when I first turned on the computer, I made a factory restore image of the new computer on a 'invisible' part of the drive.

On Lenovo's, they have a "one key recovery." I push a button at start-up and it will reinstall, even if I can't boot to windows.

Chris.

 

Then the thing I'd do is reformat and reinstall. Then force defrag your C drive.

When that's done use eraser to wipe the free space on the C drive. You can do multiple passes to be sure of cleaning the drive.

 

A kid once posted he finally got his Dad to agree to get him a laptop. The only mandatory thing was he had to buy it locally at a store. He wanted to be able to take it back if anything happened right away, be able to talk, in person to the sales person, or manager if need be.

The kid posted that he narrowed it down to two different laptops.

He posted the two and asked questions about each one so he could decide.

He got answers like, "I would not get it locally, I'd buy it off the internet."

"You can save $5 by getting it from this site at www."

I could hardly believe it. It was like they never read the thread. They where answering a different one. He can't get it off the internet. His question was on two specific computers, but the answers where for a question; Should I get my computer of the internet or at the store?
Problem is, he didn't ask that question.

Seems like the same in this one. I want to take a drive with four partitions, write random data (at least 3-5 passes) on one part, and install on a totally overwritten drive.
I get, you don't' have to, I'd just reinstall without doing that, etc...

Thank you for your responses, I appreciate all of them very much.

Chris.

 

use the bootable cd from http://www.partitionwizard.com/

follow the instructions here

 

Thanks for the link, I'll try it and post back. I see the live CD at the bottom. Wonder why they don't list the wipe in the features?

"MiniTool® Partition Wizard Bootable CD 7.6
MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly into MiniTool Partition Wizard to manage partitions without any limitations. Features including Rebuild MBR, Partition Recovery, Move/Resize Partition, Merge Partition, Extend Partition, Split Partition, Change Cluster Size, Copy Partition, Create Partition, Delete Partition, Format Partition, Convert File System, Hide/Unhide Partition, Explore Partition. "

Chris.

 

Don't know really... It does say "Features including" rather than "Features are" and it does also state "manage partitions without any limitations "

The task you require done must be done either from a bootable CD such as this or the drive must be taken into another machine because no program running under windows can format or wipe its own active partition ie the partition that is running windows at the time.

 

Did it and it worked perfect! It kept adding more time to complete but it was the best I've used to do this. Can't beat the price also.

Thank you for the link to such a good program. worked very good.

Chris.

 

You're welcome.