how to wipe hard drive windows 10
1 Wiping a hard drive is operating system independent, so long as you use one of the bootable tools from my list. 2  That means that you can use this same general process to wipe a hard drive if you have Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux, or any other PC operating system. If you're using a flash drive or other USB drive, this usually involves burning the ISO image to the USB device and then booting from that USB drive to get started. 2  Wipe the hard drive according to the program's instructions.