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-==== Reset/Uninitialize a disk via CLI (DISKPART) ====
+====== Reset/Uninitialize a disk via CLI (DISKPART) ======
+To remove all partitions and uninitialize a disk on Windows a tool called ''DISKPART'' can be used. It is installed by default on all Windows versions, to perform an uninitialization administrator permissions are required.
+The functionality described here is only a minimum of all the things DISKPART can do.
+Firstly run ''DISKPART'' within an Admin CMD:
+<code bash>DISKPART</code>
+Then list all disks by running ''LIST DISK'':
+<code bash>LIST DISK</code>
+Select the disk that should be uninitialized by running: ''SELECT DISK <ID>''
+<code bash>SELECT DISK <ID></code>
+Finally ''CLEAN'' the disk, all data will be destroyed!
+<code bash>clean</code>
+This tool/way to reset won't replace the whole disks with zeroes, it will just delete the partition table as well as the initialization format (like gpt).
+To reuse the disk a reinitialization is required, this can be done graphically by entering the disk partition manager.