Prefacing this, I'm running Windows 10 on this laptop (Alienware 15 r3), and I have two drives, the 256gb boot drive it came with, and a Samsung 500 gig EVO, both SSD's
I know about all the steps in regards to resetting a PC using the Windows recovery partition, and how you can select "remove files and clean the drives" for all the drives in your system
My trouble is that, from what I can tell, this is designed to apply to hard disks, and is a horrible thing in regards to SSD's (and doesn't seem to properly erase them anyway). I tried secure erasing the Samsung using their Magician utility, but it kept telling me I needed a bootable USB, and after it made the bootable USB and restarted, the laptop would simply still boot up on the regular boot drive and not the Samsung USB drive it had just created, and nothing would happen
All I wanna do is clean the drives enough that my data can't be recovered, and use the built in Windows recovery partition to install a fresh copy of Windows so that I can sell the machine, and it's turning into a much more complex issue than I thought it would be