How to Securely Erase A Drive

You may for some reason decide to completely wipe your hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) to ensure your data does not fall into the wrong hands.

Formatting your drive will delete all the files, but the process leaves traces of the erased data. The data you deleted can as a result be easily recovered.

Securely Erase your HDD

In an HDD, the data is written on a magnetic disk, and the OS can tell precisely where the …

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