How to Erase Everything on a Computer Hard Drive

How to Erase Everything on a Computer Hard Drive

If your looking to sell your computer or you going to recycle it, then you need to erase all the data on that hard drive or SSD.

Even after you format you your computers hard drive the data can be recovered using simple hard drive data recovery software.

hard drive recovery software can recover years of data from the hard drive, this could be your photos, videos, documents and anything else you have on that hard drive.

This could even be sensitive data like banking details. Its very important that you securely erase the data from that hard drive before you sell or get rid of that old computer. This will make it impossible to recover overwritten files from that hard disk.

There is many types of software and ways to wipe a hard drive clean and there is also many different hard drive overwriting methods like.

Secure Erase
DoD 5220.22-M (US Department of Defense)
NCSC-TG-025 (US National Security Agency)
AFSSI-5020 (US Air Force)
AR 380-19 (US Army)
NAVSO P-5239-26 (US Navy)
RCMP TSSIT OPS-II (Canada)
CSEC ITSG-06 (Canada)
HMG IS5 (UK)
ISM 6.2.92 (Australia)
NZSIT 402 (New Zealand)
VSITR (Germany)
GOST R 50739-95 (Russia)
Gutmann (Peter Gutmann)
Schneier (Bruce Schneier)
Pfitzner (Roy Pfitzner)
Random Data
Write Zero




Disk Erasing
PartedMagic comes with easy to use solutions for conventional overwrite. Internal Secure Erase. Wiping of only Free Space.

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