How to Securely Wipe a PC Using ShredOS ShredOS runs on Linux under the hood and boots from a USB stick, as you cannot wipe your device's hard drive if you are booting from it.

You can securely erase (or wipe) a hard drive’s data by writing ones and zeros over it (I’ll get to SSDs below). There are three approaches to the job: You can wipe the entire drive or partition.

Most hard drive and SSD manufacturers offer a manual reset option to wipe data from their drives. However, it may not be secure and might be resetting the device rather than making the data ...

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk dev ...

I have Win7 installed (bootcamp), but Samsung Magician doesn't see these drives as Samsung when I put them in a USB enclosure and refuses to enable the secure erase option.

Whether you want to sell your Windows PC, Mac, or Chromebook or give it a fresh start, you need to wipe it first. Here's how.