this depends on the hardware (controller) of the device! - in this case your best chance would be a "built in firmware" or special software from the manufacturer. The worst case would be: you are erasing nearly nothing and just killing your device much quicker than necessary!. 1.The built-in method for wiping a drive in Windows is, somewhat surprisingly, found in the update and security page of the settings. you only need to create a bootable media (CD, DVD, USB, etc.) and start from it.Īn interesting option would be Ultimate Boot CD: it offers DBAN and a bunch of other interesting tools on one bootable CD.įor people already using GNU/*nix-systems it may be easier to install and use nwipe (it can be considered as DBAN for different hosts) or simple use shred or dd from the GNU Core Utilities.īUT to make it clear, on SSDs (or other flash based media) every kind of "secure deleting" may be useless! Notice: Please make sure you have chosen the correct HDD or SSD. It would be the universal method because it works from it's own bootable iso, is therefor platform independent, also free (as in speech and beer). in general i would advise to use DBAN (or it's unofficial fork dban) to wipe complete disks:
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