I have some old pcs that I’m going to donate. What’s the safest way to erase the hard drives so none of my data is on there?

  • FoxtrotSierraTango@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s remarkably easy, you just hook the drive up to a PC with recovery software and let the software do its thing. I’ve done it for multiple drives when my tech illiterate friends erase their only copy of something.

    For any PC I dispose of that once had credit card, banking, or other sensitive information, the hard drive is getting destroyed. For everything else a few low level formats will suffice.