Delete hard drive?

Question

Hello everyone,

I want to completely erase my hard drive. Problem:

I only have one installed. My Windows runs from that one. How can I permanently delete all the files? I tried using DNBS or whatever it's called. But something went wrong there, and the USB stick is no longer recognized.

Anyone have any suggestions?

catseyes · Answer

Do you think this: https://www.heise.de/download/product/dariks-boot-and-nuke-dban-54943?hg=1&hgi=0&hgf=false You need to start from Windows to build a bootable USB stick.

steven707 · Answer

No way. But do you know another way to delete all files?

catseyes · Answer

There are still similar tools, moment...

catseyes · Answer

Is that an HDD or SSD?

catseyes · Answer

Here is another method: https://www.easeus.de/partitionieren-tipps/bootfaehiges-usb-laufwerk-erstellen.html

mchawk777 · Answer

Extend HDD and clamp it to another productive system, eg via USB adapter.

Here either make (slow!) formatting or eg KillDisk ,

You cannot delete a disk on which the currently running operating system is active.

benutzer102023 · Answer

Hi.

What exactly do you have with the PC or the hard drive?

You can take a bootstick, with Linux or a Windows installation, as you can format the board.

That's enough if you want to use it for yourself.

For resale, you need something else because you can restore the data.

If you only want to scrape the computer/plate, then treat it lovingly with a hammer, a bite, if the board is defective, in which a pase thick macks are in there that the pcat no longer rotates, no one will bother to save data.