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?

  • Revelator007@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    Something that works on any hard drive, and allows you to set up a hash to completely overwrite the hard drive where you will have to install a new OS is Acronis. It is a backup software that also allows you to fully scrub a hard drive!! It is almost impossible to recover every bit of data. If a person did run recovery, they would get gobbledygook.

    As a reference: I am a retired IT. I have used this extensively.