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Ask HN: Recommendations for securely wiping a hard drive?
The hard drives are not SSDs, they are 3.5 inch external hard drives, formatted for use with Windows.
Any recommendations for software (free or paid) to reliably wipe the data on the external drives? I am using Windows 10 so the software will need to work on Windows.
I know that destroying a hard drive is one option, but it is not something I want to do.
- slideaway 8y agoI'm sure others will recommend one of the many programs to kill the data, but if this is high stakes, the bottom of a lake or river will serve you best (after a full format)"it's the only way to be sure".