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How to completely and securely erase a computer’s hard drive before getting rid of it, selling the computer or giving it away to someone else. Following the steps explained for several methods, the computer’s hard drive will be completely erased to ensure that no personal data (often stored in files that cannot be easily erased) is left on the hard drive and cannot be recovered again. These methods explained ensure that all data is securely destroyed and inaccessible.
Key Takeaways:
- Deleting a file out of recycle bin does not get rid of it off the hard drive you need another program to write over the blank space that the original file was in.
- Reformatting a hard drive does not completely erase the information you still need to have the blank space where the original files were to be written over by something else.
- To make sure information is completely gone physically destroy hard drive, software that writes every sector as zero, and software that rewrites over and over in the blank spaces left behind by files that were deleted.
“Make sure the information on your hard drive is not recoverable.”
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- ThioJoeTech (YouTube Channel)
- ThioJoe.com
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