Question was derived from wiping the drive the current OS runs that Partition Wizard runs on before installing a new OS from USB. PW was installed on the pc im working on so I used it instead of doing the cmd line shit at windows setup to wipe the disk. My questions is because im not deleting the disk im actually wiping the disk, where is it storing the code for the wipe disk operation to run from? Further more, if you load up the other options like, creating new partition, assigning letter, etc. how many of these functions can it run after the disk it was installed on was deleted?

  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    My questions is because im not deleting the disk im actually wiping the disk, where is it storing the code for the wipe disk operation to run from?

    Without knowing anything about any of the software you’re asking about, I can still say that RAM would be a very good guess, anything that was read from disk would normally store itself in RAM before modifying the disk it was read from.