I have a laptop I’m wanting to sell but I need to wipe the SSD, I only have experience wiping hard drives by overwriting the data, but after looking into it, it seems that SSD’s cannot be cleaned in the same way. I’m confused on what to do and just need some help. Is there a specific tool I can use? I downloaded ubuntu onto a flashdrive and booted it live from my laptop and tried to use hdparm to wipe the drive but I couldn’t figure it out. I’m not very knowledgeable as I’m sure you can tell, any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

  • wessty1984@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Not sure how healthy it is for SSDs but I used to use cipher /w:C: in a command prompt or powershell where C was the drive letter. It would overwrite free space with 0s, 1s, then random I believe if I’m remembering right