How To Recover Or Erase Data From Hard Drive Permanently

How To Recover Or Erase Data From Hard Drive Permanently

Are you planning to sell your PC and you sure that all the personal files on your hard drive are erased and unrecoverable? Here is a mindblowing report for you.

After deleting all your files it can be restored from the Recycle Bin. And even if deleted the Bin, your deleted files can often be recovered. Using the Reset feature in Windows 8.1 or 10 to return your PC to factory conditions does erase the drive as it reinstalls the OS. So that is a viable option. If you are using old type PC then?

First, a little  information

Most laptops and desktops now using solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of mechanical hard drives. The SSDs are trickier to wipe and not all hard drive erasers support them. If you're wiping a mechanical hard drive, you'll want a drive eraser utility that offers a data destruction method known as DoD 5220.22-M.

How to Wipe Your Hard Drive

Nowadays so many software developed for wipe hard drive. In them the best software is PartedMagic.It is a jack of all trades. For $11, this utility offers disk partitioning, disk cloning, file recovery, drive erasing. The PartedMagic also supports SSDs.

How to erase data from Your Hard Drive

Blancco Drive Eraser is the best but it costs $18.46 for a single license. It supports SSDs as well as the DoD 5222.2M method for erasure. It's recommended for use by businesses and organizations, so it's more than capable of handling disk erase for personal use.

After you download Blancco Drive Eraser, you'll receive an email with instructions on how to create a bootable USB drive to load the software. Connect the USB drive in the computer with the hard drive. Now you can erase all or selected data permanently.