Hello everyone,
I have 2 computers I'm going to sell, and I want to completely wipe their drives before selling them, just to be sure there's no way (no easy way for normal users at least) to recover the data on them. Going to reinstall Windows on both of the machines. This goes mainly for the SSD's as I'm not that familiar with how they do things. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
For the laptop:
It has only one drive, an Intel 330 SSD. How do I wipe this? I've seen some tips for wiping a non-OS SSD, but little in the way of wiping the main drive? Is there some program that I can put on a bootable USB to wipe it from BIOS before reinstalling Windows?
For the desktop:
It has a Samsung 850 SSD for the OS, and a secondary HDD. For the HDD I was planning to use DBAN for the wipe. Can DBAN be used in Windows, or do I have to use a bootable USB?
Also, same problem as the laptop for the SSD. EDIT: Just found out that Samsung Magician can be used to create a bootable drive to wipe that SSD.
One forum post I read said to use this command to write 0's to the entire disk. But I don't know how to use it (cmd?) and if it will even work on an SSD:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
I have 2 computers I'm going to sell, and I want to completely wipe their drives before selling them, just to be sure there's no way (no easy way for normal users at least) to recover the data on them. Going to reinstall Windows on both of the machines. This goes mainly for the SSD's as I'm not that familiar with how they do things. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
For the laptop:
It has only one drive, an Intel 330 SSD. How do I wipe this? I've seen some tips for wiping a non-OS SSD, but little in the way of wiping the main drive? Is there some program that I can put on a bootable USB to wipe it from BIOS before reinstalling Windows?
For the desktop:
It has a Samsung 850 SSD for the OS, and a secondary HDD. For the HDD I was planning to use DBAN for the wipe. Can DBAN be used in Windows, or do I have to use a bootable USB?
Also, same problem as the laptop for the SSD. EDIT: Just found out that Samsung Magician can be used to create a bootable drive to wipe that SSD.
One forum post I read said to use this command to write 0's to the entire disk. But I don't know how to use it (cmd?) and if it will even work on an SSD:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M