Originally Posted by
cavuman1
Good Morning, Cornish Jack! The easiest way to non-destructively delete the contents of a hard drive is cmd format C:/.
- Ed
I am not quite certain however I don't see how that can work. The OS is running from that drive and if the format progresses it will delete random files until the OS crashes. Whether the required data has been deleted will be uncertain.
If you have a windows installation disk you will likely be able to do it from the Recovery Console.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...sole-not-start
format c: /p:0
Will zero all sectors on the disk.