How to Wipe Hard Drive Permanently

Smart approach to wipe your hard drive data permanently!

Are you planning to sell your computer or laptop? Does it contain very sensitive data or there are your private files on hard drive? Before, you handover your computer or sell it’s hard drive make sure, data is wiped out completely. For this reason, you have to wipe hard drive permanently. If you don’t have any idea about wiping hard drive, read this informative article and know why it is important to wipe hard drive and how to do it efficiently.

Generally, most of computer users are not completely aware of the fact behind file deletion. They think Shift + Delete operation is enough to delete data permanently since, it cannot be found in Recycle Bin. Similarly, some users format hard drive before selling their computer or hand over it to others. Since, after hard drive is formatted, it becomes empty and there remains no any, users prefer to format the hard drive. However, they format hard disk multiple times but even data is not completely erased. Yes, reality is far away than what users think.

When you delete or format hard drive data, it does not get delete permanently. This operation only involves in freeing up index pointers that are used to point out file location. Data remains intact physically on hard drive, only the location is listed as re-usable. It means, data can be restored back easily. For this purpose, plenty of tools are in your hand which have strong tendency to recover files after deletion or from formatted hard drive.

Now the question is how to wipe hard drive permanently? What exactly need to be done in order to perform permanent deletion of hard drive data? Well, this is a quite interesting fact. You can delete hard drive data permanently and for this you have two options. First option is to format hard drive and then save useless data on it and again format it. In this way, sensitive will be overwritten after first time you format hard drive and save useless data on it, but it seems a silly job. Also this is not completely secure and effective way of erasing data permanently.

Therefore, it is better to look for third party software to wipe hard drive permanently. Software like Remo MORE guarantees complete erasure of information from hard drive. This software is designed with advanced sanitization standards for drive wiping. Advanced and user-friendly application that makes it very easy to wipe hard disk drive. This application can be used on all major versions of Windows computers i.e. Windows 8, Windows 7/XP and others.

Step 2: In this step select hard drive that you want to wipe permanently as shown in figure 2.

Fig 2: Select Drive

Step 3: Now, select wiping method and click on "yes" to start wiping process as shown in figure 3.

Fig 3: Select Wiping Method