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Properly erasing an SSD

bigdogchris

bigdogchris

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I'm going to be reinstalling my OS on my OCZ Vertex 2 in a month or so.

I don't want to simply wipe the partition and recreate from within Windows 7 installer. Why? Well, I don't want blocks that are wrote to but not emptied to be existing on the drive (like how Trim properly empties them).

What can I do wipe the drive so that all of the blocks are properly emptied for maximum write performance, then reinstall the OS, and let Windows 7 handle it from there? I can temporarily install Win7/xp/vista on an old HDD to have access to a Windows environment so that's not an issue.

Thanks.

ps. I looked at OCZ Sanitary Erase but it doesn't seem to support my drive/firmware. It just comes up as a blank drive with no information about it.
 
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