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?
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.
Riiiiiiight. Way to make me feel instant embarrassment for how stupid I feel now🤣
its loading everything into a virtual drive in ram and running from that location
Idk how i completely blanked on RAM when posting this lol. I spent so much time fucking with my drives and booting I just completely spaced out on RAM when I was staring at the progress bar moving a pixel per hour lol thanks.
Wouldn’t it be simpler than that and just be that the application is running from RAM?
Though I suppose if we’re talking about Linux you could move root to a disk in RAM.
