Choose the method of deletion and the program will run erasing promptly. The software will ask you for confirmation. After completely erasing a hard drive, you can be confident that whatever information was on the drive now gone for good. You can now sell or give the hard drive away. Of course not. Simply deleting, hard drive formatting and OS reinstalling just hide your data by removing the directory reference to the data other than actually remove its contents. And in most cases, your data is still completely accessible by some data recovery software or skilled computer hackers.
That's why we recommend you to use third-party hard drive erase software. Such programs can ensure your data is completely erased and unrecoverable. EaseUS free partition manager is the best software to erase or wipe hard drive or partition. It allows you to completely erase ALL hard drive or external storage information including your personal data, programs, viruses, and malware. The program uses military-grade, wiping technology that overwrites your data multiple times, ensuring that your data is unrecoverable, even using the most sophisticated tools.
Note: The wipe disk operations cannot be undone after applying the changes. And this software will auto load all drives in your computer. Click the target disk which needs data wiping, and click Clean Disk — Wipe Disk from the left action panel.
Or you can right-click the target disk and choose Wipe Disk. In the popup window, this free hard drive wipe software offers 5 kinds of disk erasing methods. You can choose one based on your own need. The longer time it takes, the hard drive data will be cleaned more thoroughly. You can now preview this disk, it becomes all unallocated now. At last, you should hit Apply button on the top-left of this program to carry out the pending operations.
And the wiped data cannot be recovered by any data recovery programs any more. Your private data is safe. Step 1. And launch MiniTool Partition Wizard. Step 2. Select the connected external drive and click Wipe Disk option. Buy Now. Another popular free and open source hard drive data wipe software is DBAN. It also supports several advanced algorithms like DoD Disk Wipe is also a top data removal tool. Disk Wipe is a windows app, so you can only run this tool in the existing Windows operating system.
You cannot use it to wipe hard drive which runs the current operating system. But you can use it to erase internal drive or SSD, external hard drives. Select the external hard drive or SD card you want to erase data, and select " Erase Sectors " option under Tools menu. Select items to fill disk sectors and click Erase button on the popped-up window. There are four options to fill disk sectors in the drop-down list, i. You can either choose one from "00, FF and Random Data", or specify item to fill disk.
DiskGenius asks confirmation for the action, click Erase button to continue. Since the process wipes data permanently, you should make sure you are erasing correcting disk and important files have been backed up. Step 6. The disk eraser starts wiping data on selected drive and the process may take long time if the disk has very large capacity. In this example, you can learn how to wipe a computer's main hard drive where Windows is installed.
Operating system does not allow to erase system while it is running, and we can only wipe non-system partitions. The following steps show how to reboot computer to WinPE version directly and then erase system disk. Launch the free disk wipe tool DiskGenius from your Windows computer.
It takes about two minutes to create booting information for Windows PE, please wait it to complete with patience. Once the application is ready to reboot, it prompts to restart and backup data.
Click " OK " button and computer reboots. Select computer's system hard drive where Windows is installed and click " Erase Sectors " option which can be found under Tools menu. Click Erase button and the software starts wiping the disk. Note: Once the process finishes, the computer cannot boot to system, as system partition have been erased.
You need to make a clean system installation on the hard disk. Case 3: Wipe a single file or folder on hard drive. Erasing an entire hard drive takes too much time, and you don't have to do that if you just want to erase certain existing files on the disk. On account that deleting files by emptying Recycle Bin does not wipe data complete, we should do extra operation to make files unrecoverable.
Files deleted in this way cannot be recovered by any recovery software or professionals. Let's have a close look at how to wipe files and folders:.
Launch DiskGenius again, and locate files you want to permanently delete. Select those files and right-click them to choose " Delete Files Permanently ".
Click " Permanently Delete " button on the popped-up window. In order to completely delete the file, the application will refill hard drive sectors taken by the file during deletion. By default, it overwrites data by filling zeros which can be modified to random data as well.
Click " Delete " button to confirm the action to be done. Case 4: Erase deleted files only without affecting existing data. Erasing free space on hard drive overwrites lost files, which does not disturb existing files on the disk. This solution applies to those who just want to overwrite lost files only in order to make lost data unrecoverable.
Select characters to overwrite disk space and click " Erase " button. The application starts cleaning unused disk space, which takes long time if free space is very larger. Physically destroying a hard drive is also a solution to ensure data is forever unrecoverable. If you are not going to reuse or recycle your hard drive, you can try this solution to clean data. Use a screwdriver to remove all screws on the hard drive case.
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