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Can anyone recommend a (ideally free) tool for securely erasing data? I want to wipe my old HDs from a previous computer build. I hold a number of work files on some of the drives, quite a lot of which is sensitive and which I would not want to risk someone getting their hands on if they reconstruct the data (I'm a family law trial lawyer) and I'd obviously rather not have my family photos able to be recovered. The work stuff has been encrypted with Bitlocker, the photos, etc have not. Any suggestions?
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Nov 24, 2022 14:55
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Eraser is free and works fine. Should do a single wipe pass by default, which is all you need. https://eraser.heidi.ie/
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Nov 25, 2022 01:27
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edit: beaten by a few minutes  Bouchehog posted:Can anyone recommend a (ideally free) tool for securely erasing data? I want to wipe my old HDs from a previous computer build. I hold a number of work files on some of the drives, quite a lot of which is sensitive and which I would not want to risk someone getting their hands on if they reconstruct the data (I'm a family law trial lawyer) and I'd obviously rather not have my family photos able to be recovered. The work stuff has been encrypted with Bitlocker, the photos, etc have not. DBAN should work okay if you want to donate them: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/dban-2.3.0/ If you want to take it to the next level you'd use a power drill/nail gun etc.
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Nov 25, 2022 01:33
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Perfect. Thanks both. I went with Eraser, which has been very easy to use.
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