📎 AI Summary:
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.
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.
Solution
If you use secure erase it should wipe the whole drive.
This leads to other thread i created.If you use secure erase it should wipe the whole drive.
1 physical C drive with 3 partitions. Can i secure erase partitions 1&2 but leave 3 untouched?