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Getting rid of your Windows PC? Remember to wipe the drive first

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...
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Heads Up: The Disk Wipe Feature In Windows 11 And 10 Can Leave Your Data Behind

Earlier today, we reported on a circumstance in which NVMe SSDs can lose your data, which is a bad situation when you need to preserve said data. However, it turns out that both Windows 11 and 10 have ...
Ars Technica

wipe a disk with locked MBR

Thanks to the new "smart" TV that can't handle exFAT, I have to format a 64GB Samsung USB flash drive as NTFS. Seeing it going at 9MB/s, I got "greedy", and started a second file copy operation to the ...

There's a right way to wipe your Windows PC before getting rid of it - here's how I do it

There's a right way to wipe your Windows PC before getting rid of it - here's how I do it ...
Ars Technica

Windows program that will ATA Secure Erase any SSD?

I'm looking for a Windows program that can run the ATA Secure Erase command for any SSD that supports it. I have Intel, Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk, etc. drives, and they all require their own ...