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To completely erase the information on your hard drive, you can try a third-party tool like iReaShare Data Wipe, which can completely erase your files, folders, hard drives, and external devices on a PC.
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What is the purpose of the write-zeros-to-drive?
To completely erase the data on the hard drive.
How do you wipe your canon copier hard drive clean?
In order to completely wipe a hard drive on a Canon branded copier, one must format the hard drive. Formatting the hard drive will erase all information. The operating system of the copier can then be re-installed.
What provides a strong magnetic field used to completely erase data on a hard drive or tape drive?
Degausser
How do you completely erase Mac haRDDRIVE?
You can use a Mac shredder software to completely wipe Mac hard drive in single go. Note: the ultimate state to permanently erase files or wipe out a hard drive clean is to let all the data be overwritten.
What do the format button do?
It wipes all your data off your hard disk.
How can I be sure my information is safe with electronics recycling?
Before you send your computer to the electronics graveyard, remove the hard drive. If the computer still functions, you can erase the hard drive.
How can you permanently remove info from computer?
The ONLY sure way is to remove the hard drive and destroy it completely. Less drastic measures that work for most users would include formatting the hard drive and reinstalling the operating system. Short of that, anything you do will leave traces that can be followed and recovered.
Erase a hard drive?
Use ErAce from erace.it
How do you clear the hard drive?
If you are going to reinstall the OS, simply Reformat the hard drive. If however you are going to dispose of the hard drive, then drill 3 holes in the hard drive to permanently destroy it. If you are going to sell the hard drive there are programs you can download that will completely erase the hard drive. At least they claim to. If it were my hard drive and I had sensitive data on it, I would not sell it under any circumstances. There are ways to get data off any hard drive unless it has been destroyed.
How do you completely clear your external hard drive?
You can completely clear your external hard drive by formatting it.
How do you permanently erase an entire hard drive?
Use ErAce from erace.it
How do you format hard drive on acer 5220 to get rid of vista?
You'd need to boot from some other drive and then use a utility to format the hard drive. One that you can get for free is called DBAN ("Darik's Boot and Nuke"), which will not only format the drive but completely erase everything that's on it. You'd then need to get some other installation media to install a new OS on the hard drive.
