If you want to permanently erase data on your Hard Drive without recovery, then you are in the right place, this article will give you an idea of what must be done. I have come a cross-questions like, Is it possible to erase hard drive data permanently? And so many others, In my article today I will share with you the 3 Secure Hard Drive Data wiping methods you need to know if you are going to securely wipe data from your Hard Drive.
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Use a free Hard Drive wiping tool
You can make good use of the so many free and available Hard Drive data erasing tools to securely wipe data completely from your Hard Drive. In this piece, we have chosen the partition Resizer tool as you may see below.
Partition Resizer is a free disk wiper capable of removing data completely and permanently without any chance of recovery by filling sectors with zero that could totally remove every byte of blocks to help protect privacy.
You can download this tool on your Windows PC and then start erasing data. It works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 and if you want to remove Windows Server hard disk volumes, you may download its server edition.
Download & Install Partition Resizer on your PC
Open the program and then right-click the disk partition that you want to erase.
Navigate the mouse to the ‘Wipe Partition’ option and then confirm the wiping. Note that if you want to erase the whole disk, you may select partitions to erase one by one.
Wait a few minutes to let the software erase the disk information by filling 0 to the blocks.
Erase Hard Disk by CMD
If you are not well conversant with the clicking methods, also known as graphical methods, (Linux users) you may also choose to completely erase data from your Hard Drive using CMD. The steps you must follow are as below:
How to open command prompt windows
On a Windows 10 machine, click on Start and then type CMD in the search bar that shows up
For Windows 10 users, just type CMD on the search bar near the start menu and it would open
However, for Windows 8 users, go to the start button and then locate Command Prompt (Admin) and it would show
Once you see the command prompt window, type ‘diskpart’ and press Enter, and then the diskpart would show
Once you see the disk part window, type ‘list disk’ to let it show all disks on your PC.
Once it shows your disk, type ‘select disk 1’ and then press enter to get the disk that you want to erase selected.
Type ‘Clean’ after the window showed your disk is selected as targeted disk and it would start cleaning your disk information.
Get the disk damaged by crashing it
Yes, you read it right, if there are any secrets held up in that Hard Drive, why not crash it then to ensure there is not any form or possibility of data recovery from the Hard Drive? Crash it with bricks or stones and break the inside disk into pieces and then separate the pieces into different trash that you may bury in different locations.