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When wiping both/all disks, please wipe the data disks firstly, wipe the system disk secondly, in this case, wipe Disk 1 before wiping Disk 0, if we wipe Disk 0 first, the laptop won’t reboot, let alone wiping the rest of disks, making sense, right?

Steps are the same for all the three situations, only the target hard drive varies, situation 1 is for most the laptops, one Disk 0 is installed, and it’s the only target we’re dealing with, some laptops have an SSD disk for the OS, an HDD hard drive for the data disk, that will make two disks listed in the Disk Management tool, Disk 0 and Disk 1, Data Wiper shows the same disk number like the Disk Management does, don’t click on the wrong disk when performing, and when the disk has no operating system, you won’t see this warning message blew but another one Warning message on wiping a disk with an operating system Multiple hard drives connected to the computer

Data Wiper will pop-up a warning message says the Disk CANNOT reboot after wiping, click YES to confirm and then type the keyword WIPE in the input field to start.

Then the Wipe Now button is active and click on it.

Click on Disk 0 (not any partitions, but the “Disk 0” words, or the disk icon) to select the entire disk.

Choose a wiping method or use the default security setting.

Click the Entire drive or disk option first.

The old version of Data Wiper shows Disk 1, new ones show Disk 0 instead Like the screenshot below: Disk 0 in the disk map This is the situation one of our customer described at the beginning of the page, media ports are broken, can’t use disc and USB, there’s one disk connected to the laptop, want to erase everything including the OS. For detailed intro, please check the guides on different wiping schemes Using Data Wiper without a disc