Thank for your reply, I was just doing exactly that and problem solved.

Got a new flash drive, disconnected everything but the SSD and installed windows clean.

Hello everyone,

I have searched the entire internet for something similar to this problem and haven't found anything, So I decided to post here hoping you guys could help me debug this problem...

Thanks both of you for your replies

Thank you!

But one of the 9 partitions in my HD is called "EFI System Partition" this will be wiped too, is that any problem?

I saved my key using Brees tip

Thank you for your response!

So I ran ShowKeyPlus and saved a key backup file, now I should be OK wiping this hard drive new as long as I use this same key?

It showed as "OEM Edition: Win 8 RTM...

Hello Everyone,

I am selling my Dell laptop to a friend and I wanted to be sure that none of my files will be accessible to him, for this, I chose to do a zerofill to my hard disk.

The reason...