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Old 06-28-2022, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by keepsake View Post
Almost impossible to wipe computer drives these days. Only way I know of it with a drill, punching holes in the platter. Not easy.
I know you said "almost impossible" but there is plenty of free military grade erasure software that wipes drives clean. The software erases the drive in the first pass, then in consecutive passes writes a full drive of "0"s followed by a full drive of "1"s followed by a full drive of random characters. Then it does a verification of the drive.