SSD Return Issues I guess?

[Pavonis2]

Hi my name is Gabriel, and I have recently gotten an SSD. Well 2 to be exact. I got a 500gb SSD yesterday and a 1tb today and transferred the stuff from the 500 to the 1tb. now I want to Wipe the 500gb SSD so I can return it but idk how to wipe that ssd and only that ssd. I don't want my other 2 drives to be effected (the 1tb ssd and my Hard Drive). How can I do this?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Does your bios have a secure erase option, thats probably the easy way to do the wipe here.

 

Otherwise Id just do a diskpart clean all in cmd and yoru good.

[Pavonis2]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Does your bios have a secure erase option, thats probably the easy way to do the wipe here.

 

Otherwise Id just do a diskpart clean all in cmd and yoru good.

Thanks!!!

[Mando772004]

use diskpart. open cmd as admin type diskpart and type list disk and then select disk "X". X is the number of your 500gb ssd and then type clean

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, InfernalClaw said:

use diskpart. open cmd as admin type diskpart and type list disk and then select disk "X". X is the number of your 500gb ssd and then type clean

Make sure you use the clean all option. The normal clean keeps all the data on the drive, and just deletes the pointers to the data.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 7/14/2021 at 5:19 PM, InfernalClaw said:

use diskpart. open cmd as admin type diskpart and type list disk and then select disk "X". X is the number of your 500gb ssd and then type clean

As Electronics Wizardy said, clean simply just makes the data inaccessible. All someone needs to do is recover the partition using something like TestDisk which isn't hard and takes a few minutes to do. I've done it before when I accidently deleted the partition of my mass storage HDD when reinstalling Windows. A clean all command zeroes out (think of it as overwriting the entire drive with 0s) the drive making recovery less trivial if not impossible. 

 

More professional data wipe standards such as RCMP TSSIT OPS-II use the same principle, albeit more involved with multiple iterations of 0s, 1s, and random characters.

 

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