You’ve just bought a new SSD, you’re donating your old laptop, or perhaps Windows 11 is running so slowly that you want the nuclear option: a clean slate. Erasing a hard drive sounds simple—just delete the files, right? Wrong.
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Have a horror story about selling a PC with data still on it? Let us know in the comments. | Hard Disk Drive (Spinning Disk) | Solid State Drive (No moving parts) | | :--- | :--- | | Use clean all or DBAN. | Never use DBAN (wears out the drive). | | Overwriting 1 pass is enough. | Use built-in ATA Secure Erase. | | Magnets work (don't actually do this). | Physical destruction is the only 100% guarantee. | You’ve just bought a new SSD, you’re donating