Windows 11: How To Completely Wipe Hard Drive EASY & FOR FREE
60Windows 11: How To Completely Wipe Hard Drive EASY & FOR FREE
Are you selling or giving away your computer? You may have already deleted personal files and information, or you may have reinstalled or reset Windows, thereby erasing your private data. Either way, you're not quite done. There's one important action you should take before you say goodbye to your old friend. You need to wipe your hard drive clean.
Most laptops and many desktops now come with solid-state drives instead of mechanical hard drives. SSDs are faster than their mechanical counterparts but can be trickier to wipe. Simply deleting your files doesn't do the trick since they can be restored from the Recycle Bin. And even if you empty the Bin, your deleted files can often be recovered with the right undelete utility.
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To wipe a hard drive means to completely erase the drive of all its information. Deleting everything does not wipe a hard drive and formatting does not usually either. You'll need to take an extra step so the data can't be easily reconstructed later.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 11, Windows 11, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems. Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei Samsung).