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Whats the best way to totally wipe a Solid State Drive? I just built a system for my father and finished installing the drivers and everything (was kinda a pain gigabytes drivers required a certain order). Well unfortunatly he went and used it before i had all the virus and security settings installed and seems to have some malware toolbar that i cant get rid of on chrome. Every time i blast it it comes back a day or two later. 'Internet helper 3.1' I can probably get rid of it with enough research and trial and error but i dont really have the time for that. At this point it would just be easier to totally wipe the HD and start again
I just want to know what the best way to totally format/wipe the drive would be. So that im sure the malware isnt still hiding somewhere. Its a SSD. A 128gb samsung 840 evo that i was using just for the OS. I was going to just use the windows 7 install disk to wipe the partition then reinstall windows, but i want to make SURE its totally gone. I heard that doesn't work right sometimes. How can i totally format/wipe it and do a clean install from scratch? Does the format option from the win 7 disk work?
thanks
I just want to know what the best way to totally format/wipe the drive would be. So that im sure the malware isnt still hiding somewhere. Its a SSD. A 128gb samsung 840 evo that i was using just for the OS. I was going to just use the windows 7 install disk to wipe the partition then reinstall windows, but i want to make SURE its totally gone. I heard that doesn't work right sometimes. How can i totally format/wipe it and do a clean install from scratch? Does the format option from the win 7 disk work?
thanks