Wednesday, 7 August 2019

How to wipe a USB hard drive


I have a USB hard drive that I'm planning on donating. Before I donate it, however, I want to be sure that it has been completely and unrecoverably wiped of personal information.


Darik's Boot-and-Nuke works for a built-in drive, but not for USB. Is there anything that will wipe an external USB?


I'm looking for something that will run from either Vista or from a boot CD.



Answer



If you download the latest Beta Version of DBAN, it states that it supports USB.


I have tested it and it is a good beta build - it works fine.... Just one reported bug when you unplug a USB drive mid-wipe, but who would do that!


No comments:

Post a Comment

How can I VLOOKUP in multiple Excel documents?

I am trying to VLOOKUP reference data with around 400 seperate Excel files. Is it possible to do this in a quick way rather than doing it m...