Need mobile formatting software

milford · 18 Nov 2016

Possibly selling my Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet in a few days. Would like to format/delete all data on hard drive. Have too many passwords auto-saved. Is there anything I can install onto a flash drive and run from same flash drive? Will the old Format.exe work with Windows 10 on the tablet?

Thanks for any help and Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

lx07 · 18 Nov 2016

There is this Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums. It has CCleaner installed which you can use to write zeros to free space.

Or you can still use format.exe and don't specify /Q for the quick format (so it will write zeros to your drive) and then re-install Windows.

The easiest would be to take the reset option and select "fully clean my drive" rather than "just remove my files".

According to Microsoft it works as follows:

If the volume is not encrypted, then this option performs a full format of the disk and writes zeroes to every sector. This will take quite a long time. This is similar to running the command below:

format.exe c:\ /P:0

Happy thanksgiving to you too :)