How to Format/Erase a seagate external hard drive beyond recovery on MacOS???

[Clueless_Gamer]

How to Format/Erase a seagate external hard drive beyond recovery on MacOS???

 

is there anyone ways I could wipeout a seagate external hard drive beyond recovery?

 

also.. I have a OnePlus 5t that I would like to wipeout beyond recovery of any of the files on the phone. 

 

Thank You

[Crunchy Dragon]

Why do you want to wipe them "beyond recovery"?

[Enderman]

18 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Why do you want to wipe them "beyond recovery"?

He probably means overwriting with 0s multiple times so data can't be recovered from it.

[Rainbow Dash]

Nuke the drive into Oblivion!!!!!! But if you want to be unrecoverable, just smash it. But if you want to still be able to use it, but erase everything, I've heard of this program called Dban: https://dban.org/. But see what else someone recommends.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

He probably means overwriting with 0s multiple times so data can't be recovered from it.

So like, just formatting over and over again?

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

So like, just formatting over and over again?

No not really, formatting doesn't overwrite any data it just deletes the pointers.

 

[Snipergod87]

15 minutes ago, Enderman said:

No not really, formatting doesn't overwrite any data it just deletes the pointers.

 

So disk formatting will (if not choosing quick format) will wipe almost all the data, it will not be able to hit some sectors, but will get 99.99999% of it.

For a PC and HDD I recommend using Darik's Boot and Nuke.

If it is a SED HDD or SSD you can use the proper tool to wipe the encryption keys which renders the data inaccessible.

 

On a mobile phone you are limited to the Factory Reset option to wipe the device, which isn't perfect.

[Enderman]

11 minutes ago, Snipergod87 said:

So disk formatting will (if not choosing quick format) will wipe almost all the data, it will not be able to hit some sectors, but will get 99.99999% of it.

I don't think you understand.

Formatting will wipe the data (unlike quick formatting which is what 99% of people do which just deletes the info about location of files) but overwriting is specifically going over all the data with 0s multiple times.

You can recover pretty much everything even if a drive is formatted, which is why people who want to completely wipe a drive will do between 3 and 10 overwrites, or sometimes even more.

 

Simple tools like ccleaner can overwrite entire drives as many times as you want it to.

However, all partitions should be deleted and recombined in disk management first in order to get all locations.

[Clueless_Gamer]

is there any solutions for Mac OS.