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  1. joshuawilsoncom
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    wrong size ssd after wiping


    hi

    i booted in to winPe to wipe a 1tb ssd using minitool partition, 7 passes. when down, it only 238gb unallocated and i don't see the rest no where. i run disk part same 238gb showing. if try to select the disk that has 238gb it selects the boot usb, i see a 1tb hdd,same thing happen it select the boot usb... the computer is an HP Pavilion 27 All-in-One



    thanks
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  3. Samuria
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    Post a screenshot from disk management so we can see
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  4. NavyLCDR
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    Why in the world were you doing a 7-pass wipe of an SSD?!?
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  6. joshuawilsoncom
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    Samuria said:
    Post a screenshot from disk management so we can see
    sorry for the delay
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  7. Samuria
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    The 1 tb is showing full capacity as is the second drive it will only show in a lot of things when you create a parition and format it then assign a letter
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  8. NavyLCDR
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    I see two internal disks, 1 TB and 250 GB. Followed by a 64 GB USB drive.

    One thing might be throwing you off. MiniTool Partition Wizard starts disk numbering at 1. Diskpart and Windows starts disk numbering at 0. Your 1 TB disk is disk #1 in MiniTool, but it will be disk #0 in Windows and Diskpart.
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  9. Megahertz
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    NavyLCDR said:
    Why in the world were you doing a 7-pass wipe of an SSD?!?
    I agree.

    Depending on how you wipe the drive it may write random 0 or 1 on every bit so data can't be recovered.
    As SSD dies a little every time you erase and write to it, doing a 7-pass wipe isn't a good option.

    Now you have two clean drives that need to be formatted.
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  10. joshuawilsoncom
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    NavyLCDR said:
    I see two internal disks, 1 TB and 250 GB. Followed by a 64 GB USB drive.

    One thing might be throwing you off. MiniTool Partition Wizard starts disk numbering at 1. Diskpart and Windows starts disk numbering at 0. Your 1 TB disk is disk #1 in MiniTool, but it will be disk #0 in Windows and Diskpart.
    the 250gb drive was 1tb before I wiped it.
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  12. NavyLCDR
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    joshuawilsoncom said:
    the 250gb drive was 1tb before I wiped it.
    Right click on the disk in MiniTool Partition Wizard and click properties. What is the model # shown?
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  13. cereberus
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    NavyLCDR said:
    I see two internal disks, 1 TB and 250 GB. Followed by a 64 GB USB drive.

    One thing might be throwing you off. MiniTool Partition Wizard starts disk numbering at 1. Diskpart and Windows starts disk numbering at 0. Your 1 TB disk is disk #1 in MiniTool, but it will be disk #0 in Windows and Diskpart.
    Am I being dumb - I cannot see the OS drive?
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