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Hey guys, I am going to be selling my old laptop online and I just wanted to ask what tools you would use to securely wipe a hard drive. Please dont do a quick google search, I want to know what you guys have personally used and what works. Thank you very much!

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WD Data Lifeguard has an option to write zeroes to the whole drive. Do that 2-3 times and it should be enough

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If you want to completely wipe a hard drive so its impossible to recover data DBAN will do the trick. It basically does the same thing has Data Lifeguard it writes zeroes to the drive.

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Darik's "Boot 'N Nuke" is quite popular. Completely wipes all data off of it.

I say jiggly-bytes when I see "GB".

It goes down better than you would expect.

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8 minutes ago, Johntheawesomeguy said:

Hey guys, I am going to be selling my old laptop online and I just wanted to ask what tools you would use to securely wipe a hard drive. Please dont do a quick google search, I want to know what you guys have personally used and what works. Thank you very much!

You wanna get rid of data on a hard drive? Use this:

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4 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

If you want to completely wipe a hard drive so its impossible to recover data DBAN will do the trick. It basically does the same thing has Data Lifeguard it writes zeroes to the drive.

okay, thanks. So after I use this tool im guessing I cant factory reset it to it factory state, meaning I have to reinstalll windows and drivers manually correct? This shouldnt be much of an issue im just curious.

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Just now, Starelementpoke said:

You wanna get rid of data on a hard drive? Use this:

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lol, I wish I coul,d but nobody would buy a computer of craigslist if it wasnt fully functional when they got it im afraid :/

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Just now, Johntheawesomeguy said:

lol, I wish I coul,d but nobody would buy a computer of craigslist if it wasnt fully functional when they got it im afraid :/

Yeah, was more over a joke. But still is the number 1 way to keep your data safe.

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Just now, Starelementpoke said:

Yeah, was more over a joke. But still is the number 1 way to keep your data safe.

very true

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5 hours ago, Johntheawesomeguy said:

okay, thanks. So after I use this tool im guessing I cant factory reset it to it factory state, meaning I have to reinstalll windows and drivers manually correct? This shouldnt be much of an issue im just curious.

Yes everything on the drive will be erased. You will have to reinstall Windows and drivers.

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