I have some old pcs that I’m going to donate. What’s the safest way to erase the hard drives so none of my data is on there?

  • msdesignfotoB
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    1 year ago

    Why are people suggesting you to destroy the hard drives? Assuming you will donate the computer, it will require the hard drives with it to be usable.

    Check this tool. You will need a low level format. Problem solved without damaging anything. Hard drives will be usable and data on them will be unrecoverable.

    https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

    • d-centB
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      1 year ago

      Some people are so overly paranoid lol. Like anyone is going to put in the enormous effort to get the data off some random persons HDD.