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How long does Windows Diskpart take to "clean all" an 160gb drive?

Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by imar3l, Sep 4, 2008.

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I had problem with my vista so i went to perform a clean installation, at the same time i wanted to get rid of the MD drive so using hiren boot cd>acronis disk Utility i deleted all my partitions and then recreated 2 partition. Then i went to vista installation and after loading the ahci driver i kept getting this message

Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation

using this guide
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927520
i went to diskpart and perform "cleanall"its been running for half hour now..
my question is is it frozen or its normal that it takes this much time.???

TNX

imar3l, Sep 4, 2008

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I've got a 1TB Seagate... it's been five hours and counting. God only knows when it'll finish... :0)

dumpster, Dec 23, 2008

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The "clean all" command removes the partitions and 0-writes the entire disk I believe. If you use the "clean" command, it will remove the partitions and all but will not overwrite the data, it's a lot faster.

Another thing you could use is Darik's Boot and Nuke, it's a pretty good utility.

Mercellus, Dec 24, 2008

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