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The original poster inquires whether a secure erase of an SSD wipes the entire drive, including all partitions and the "System Reserved" partition, or if it's possible to erase only specific partitions while leaving others untouched. A respondent confirms that a secure erase generally wipes the whole drive. The original poster then clarifies their question about selectively erasing certain partitions without affecting others.

ztplru

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When you secure erase entire SSD; do you wipe out the whole drive (all partitions); or "System Reserved" partition is untouched?
 

nmsuk

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If you use secure erase it should wipe the whole drive.
 

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