Erasing a hard drive means completely erasing the drive for all information. Removing all also mean the hard drive is erased not, and the format never Then the hard drive is wiped off it does. You need to take extra steps to wipe the hard drive completely.
Formatting a hard drive or deleting
Formatting a hard drive or deleting a partition usually makes the data invisible or no longer noticeable by simply deleting the file system, but it does not disappear. Information can be easily recovered with a file recovery program or special hardware.
To prevent your personal information from being lost forever, you need to wipe the hard disk with special software.
Important: See Tip 2 at the bottom of the page for a “simple” wipe using the format command on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista.
To wipe the hard drive completely, follow these simple steps:
Duration: This can take minutes to hours, depending on the size of the drive and which software/method you use to erase it. Back up what you want to keep. Once the hard drive wipe is complete, there is no way to get anything on the drive.
Tip: If you are already using an online backup service, you can safely use it assuming that all your important files have been backed up online.
Important: There can be multiple drives on a single hard drive. The Windows disk management tool allows you to view the drives (volumes) that are on your hard drive.
Download the free data corruption program. The first eight programs recommended in this list can be used to erase hard drives from outside Windows if you need to erase the hard drive on which Windows is installed.
Tip: I’m a big fan of DBAN. This is the list we first chose. Probably the most widely used hard drive wiping tool. If you’re worried about wiping your hard drive, or want a detailed walkthrough, see How to wipe your hard drive in the DBAN tutorial.
Note: In practice, there are several ways to completely erase a hard drive, but it is easiest to use data corruption software, but you can use the hard drive again.
Wipe the hard drive
Then complete all the steps required to install the software, or, for bootable programs such as DBAN, obtain the ISO image on a CD or DVD disc, or a USB device such as a flash drive.
If you are using a CD or DVD, usually, the ISO image disk is in after writing, disk from start to run the program.
Using a flash drive or other USB drive, you usually burn the ISO image to a USB device and then boot from that USB drive to boot.
Wipe the hard drive as instructed by the program
Note: Most data corruption programs use several methods to erase hard drives. If you are unsure of the effectiveness or method used to complete a hard drive wipe, see How to Disinfect Data.
After properly wiping your hard drive, you can be confident that all the information on the drive has disappeared.
Now, Windows into the driver installation, creating a new partition or to, or to sell or transfer the hard drive or computer, recycling or disposal or, or restoring files that have been backed up, is possible to perform the work required I can do it.