Is there a way to wipe the hard drives of a Windows machine remotely? Like the remote wipe function that's built into iOS.
So I can still use Remote Desktop to access (with admin rights) the machine, so I can install any program.
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1why the down vote?– JoshJul 16, 2013 at 19:23
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You can not wipe down system drive, obviously...
If you have remote desktop connection as admin to the machine then you can wipe down non-system drives.
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is there a way to overwrite the free space in the system drive with zeros?– JoshJul 16, 2013 at 19:22
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Why is it obvious that the system drive can not be wiped down? Jul 16, 2013 at 21:50
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If by wiping down a hardrive/partition we consider removing all the data from it than I guess it is hardly possible to accomplish such an operation on the system partition which is currently loaded especially on Windows. Of course one can do ssh root@host, rm -rf --no-preserve-root / but at some point rm will remove enough files for system to crash. At this point there should be files still remaining there, thus operation of wiping down a hard drive would be left incomplete. Am I wrong on this point?– VL-80Jul 16, 2013 at 22:38
Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 will have this feature, it however will only remove specific information, documents, e-mails, but not the whole OS.
