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Old 06-28-2022, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Pinball wizard View Post
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.
What about a solid state hard drive?