How to format a HDD so data cant be recover?

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I am selling my laptop and I had some sensitive information on its hard drives, It has 2 HDDs, How can I format it in a way that the new buyer not be able to recover any of my old datas.


Any data on SSD storages cant be recovered, right?
 
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Pretty sure you can't, unless you take a drill and put a hole through the centre.
 
Use the boot image “DBAN”

That’s your best bet for wiping the data, even though it can still be recovered big G and other data centers just destroy old drives, as it is the only way to 100% prevent the data from being accessed.
 
You have to continually rewrite over the drive x amount of times until the information becomes irretrievable. There are like 7 different layers of formatting for a hard drive, the 7th being NSA-Grade data wipe. There are professional software that you can buy they can handle it for you, or you can take it to a professional to be done. Lastly, put the drives in the in incinerator, nothing says destroyed like physically destroying them.
 
Put it in a pre-heated oven at 220°C and cook for 15-18 minutes.
 
Make farming gausa at least 33 times at least, and this is not a joke, but the best option is complete physical destruction
 
Try installing a fresh OS
During installation, there is an option
Advanced mode
Custom Mode

Choose custom
Select drive (if you have multiple partitions like C, D, E ...)
Manually select every partition & select delete
When you are done
You will have unpartitioned raw HDD/SDD
Create a new partition with new size (if you have C drive sized 200 GB make it 220 GB or 190 GB) & go on
Hope it will solve your problem.
 
If you have sensitive information on your laptop, than why would you sell that? For like 2-3 houndrets of dollars you risk it? Simply use it till you can, or give it to a family member as a present, or take a hammer, and realese your stress.
 
I got you fam
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Oh come on guys xD

Watch this video by Linus Tech Tips:

Code: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls0fdUr885E


And read one of those:

Code: 
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-wipe-a-hard-drive-2624527

Code: 
https://helpdeskgeek.com/free-tools-review/5-free-programs-to-completely-wipe-a-hard-drive/

Code: 
https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-destruction-software-programs-2626174
 
You`ll need to do a FULL erase and format couple of times in a row. There are plenty of software that can do this just search the net for it.
Other easy way is to just trow it out the windows and buy a new hdd.
 
nahid133 said:
Try installing a fresh OS
During installation, there is an option
Advanced mode
Custom Mode

Choose custom
Select drive (if you have multiple partitions like C, D, E ...)
Manually select every partition & select delete
When you are done
You will have unpartitioned raw HDD/SDD
Create a new partition with new size (if you have C drive sized 200 GB make it 220 GB or 190 GB) & go on
Hope it will solve your problem.
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This is such a childish method)))
 
virtualpurity said:
You`ll need to do a FULL erase and format couple of times in a row. There are plenty of software that can do this just search the net for it.
Other easy way is to just trow it out the windows and buy a new hdd.
Click to expand...

Formating once, or a dozen times, does little to nothing. Formating zeros the first bit of some length of data, leaving the remaining data intact.
 
BleachBit. Make sure to check off everything.

It'll take a few hours, but no one will be able to recover it.
 
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Spats said:
BleachBit. Make sure to check off everything.

It'll take a few hours, but no one will be able to recover it.
Click to expand...
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Exactly as this one ...

Then to be EXTREMELY SURE that no info leaked away ...
smashed-hard-drive.jpg
 
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