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best way to wipe my boot drive.

WoodyWoo

I've been looking and have seen a few ways, but im not sure of them. one is to use windows 10 itself to wipe it but it seems to only clean up the drive not remove everything including the operating system. the other way is to use an eternal program to destroy all the data, but ive never used such a thing before. anyone know another way?

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4 minutes ago, WoodyWoo said:

I've been looking and have seen a few ways, but im not sure of them. one is to use windows 10 itself to wipe it but it seems to only clean up the drive not remove everything including the operating system. the other way is to use an eternal program to destroy all the data, but ive never used such a thing before. anyone know another way?

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2. dispose of hard drive at electronics re-cycling center 

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2 minutes ago, scuff gang said:

things you will need

#1 screwdriver

#2 your drive

steps:

1. take screwdriver and plunge it forcefully into the hardrive multiple times

2. dispose of hard drive at electronics re-cycling center 

ok i dont want to destroy it. im changing boot drives and want to clear everything form the old one so i can sell it

 

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Just now, WoodyWoo said:

ok i dont want to destroy it. im changing boot drives and want to clear everything form the old one so i can sell it

 

If your drive is an SSD that supports Secure Erase (most do) then there are often UEFI BIOS utilities built into many motherboards that will securely erase the drive in a few seconds. You can also use a third party secure erase utility. If the drive is an HDD then you would need to use a special tool such as DBAN that will securely erase the drive bby writing over the entire disk.

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Darik's Boot And Nuke (DBAN)

 

PROs

Will wipe a drive completely of all its data and you WILL NOT be able to recover it!

It uses military process so the process can not be reverse engineered

CONs

Will take literally hours if not DAYS to perform a complete sterilisation

The long process causes a heat build up and can damage the small chips on SSDs

 

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How...to use DBAN

Darik's Boot and Nuke

...other FREE data destruction software programs

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You can just plug it in and use windows disk management to remove the partitions, including the OS partitions.

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That would not make the existing data unrecoverable. Minitool partition manager has a wipe option, might be useful in moving stuff around too.

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On 12/15/2019 at 7:38 PM, Husky said:

If your drive is an SSD that supports Secure Erase (most do) then there are often UEFI BIOS utilities built into many motherboards that will securely erase the drive in a few seconds. You can also use a third party secure erase utility. If the drive is an HDD then you would need to use a special tool such as DBAN that will securely erase the drive bby writing over the entire disk.

How do I know if my B450 tomahawk supports it? I cant find anything online about it being supported.

 

 

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Hi @WoodyWoo

 

A secure erase feature is a program that your SSD manufacturer recommends to permanently delete sensitive data without compromising the functionality of the SSD.

Here is an example, the Toshiba OCZ utility can be used when Windows is running, although some functions require the drive to turn off i.e. reboot, for example, updating the SSD’s firmware. There is also a program that will run from a USB stick once you create it and make that USB the boot device.

 

SSD Utility Download

Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 7 only 64 bit OS *.zip file for the RD500/RC500 drives.

PC Bootable (Not for Macintosh) *.zip

 

If you do not know exactly what drive is installed in your machine you can run the portable version of Speccy and in the Piriform program's Main Window it should detail the drives installed with their brand, size, interface and respective model numbers displayed.

 

Piriform's Speccy - Standard installer

 

 

Alternatively, open a command prompt / Windows power shell and type

diskpart

Then press enter

list disk

Then press enter

select disk X

Where X is the SSD (it will be either Disk 0 or Disk 1 in your two disk machine).

Then press enter

detail disk

In the "type" description it should show NVMe if that is what you have installed.

Then press enter

 

Hope this helps ☮️

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