How to wipe Hitachi/Asus laptop GPT protected volume

[bhusebye]

Greetings,
Let me start off by saying I have Whooping cough right now and I am sick so bear with me. I've tried many things to get rid of the protected volume on this laptop and my frustration level is high right now, mostly cause I'm sick. I've tried Diskpart, formatting, moving drive into legacy mode, changing drive from GPT to MBR and nothing has worked. I am trying to install a 100 percent fresh Windows 8.1 pro Disk which I have the license. I even added a drive letter to the volume. I've been blocked from deleting this at every turn.

Is there a disk wipe software that will kill off this stubborn protected volume. Any knowledgeable help is appreciated..

 

[VirtualLarry]

DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK #
LIST DISK
CLEAN or CLEAN ALL
EXIT

should wipe it. If it doesn't, then I'm not sure what's going on.

 

[bhusebye]

It won't work Virtual Larry, before I added a drive letter to the volume it had none. And afterwards the drive letter shows up in the list but wheni go to try to work on it, it says the drive isn't there under disk part.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I think that you are confused. DISKPART works with Physical Disk numbers. If the drive/partition shows up with a drive letter, then it should show up in DISKPART.

There's nothing that you want to keep on the drive, right? You want to wipe the whole thing?

 

[bhusebye]

Right, but apparently me messing with trying to get rid of the "hidden" disk or volume or partion hosed it up to the point it wouldn't let me delete it. I looked at the laptop this morning, after "adding" a drive letter to it last night, which was E, the Windows dive software would not even recognize that the drive E was there. This morning after powering the laptop that hidden partition now has a drive letter of C, the main partion was D and the CD Rom was E. I was able at that point to delete the partitions. Only now after deleting them I'm back to where I Started all over again because it didn't get rid of the information in the hidden partition.

 

[Adelan1]

http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

http://partedmagic.com/secure-erase/

 

[razel]

Could you try again what VirtualLarry suggested and provide a screenshot. I'd be interested to see what it says. You can screenshot the active window by pressing ALT + PRT SC.

 

[schmuckley]

Linux.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Could you try again what VirtualLarry suggested and provide a screenshot. I'd be interested to see what it says. You can screenshot the active window by pressing ALT + PRT SC.

This, please. Never seen any situation in which the physical disk is OK and accessible, that a CLEAN or CLEAN ALL won't wipe.

 

[Dahak]

One thing to mention that has not been yet. You are not doing the diskpart / clean command from within windows are you?

meaning you hooked up the drive to another machine or booting from the install media?

 

[VirtualLarry]

One thing to mention that has not been yet. You are not doing the diskpart / clean command from within windows are you?

meaning you hooked up the drive to another machine or booting from the install media?

Good point. I don't think Windows will let you wipe the OS partition that it is currently running on. I guess I assumed that you were trying to run DISKPART from a bootable Windows DVD, because that's the way I normally run it. Sorry for not specifying that you need to do that.