Teach you how to remove hard drive data completely

Obviously, in the age of computer popularization, people have become accustomed to digital data storage, so your bills, work documents or private photos, all stored in the computer hard disk. And if you want to send a computer, or replace the hard drive, obviously do not want to encounter the "Miss Chen" situation, so we will discuss how to completely delete the hard disk data.

Windows 8: Using the Initialize computer feature

Deleted data can be recovered through software because the data is not actually overwritten, so there is a hidden danger; In Windows 8, the new "Initialize the computer" function, compared to the previous Windows format features, the choice of "completely delete" feature, the system will be formatted after the hard drive to the hard disk randomly write data to prevent data recovery, can be described as time-saving and labor-saving new features.

Windows 7: Use tools to safely remove systems and data

Windows 7 does not have the built-in Intelligent Data deletion feature, so we need tools such as dban to more securely remove system and file data. Such tools replicate meaningless files to all partitions on your hard disk, then format and install the operating system so you can safely sell or donate your computer to others.

Use software to remove or encrypt mobile hard drive data

If you want to delete the files on the mobile hard disk, it is not really complicated, the principle is similar to the above method, the data is deleted and overwritten, the data is relatively safe. Similar software such as "Eraser", can automatically use data to overwrite deleted files, and the operation is very convenient. If you are still not comfortable, we can install some data recovery software, to test whether the file was safely deleted.

If you do not want to be so troublesome, we can also install some file encryption software, selectively to some important data encryption, if there is no password, other people can not access the data. Even if the computer is lost, try to use data recovery software to recover the data, there is no password to access the recovered files, so it is relatively safe and convenient method.

Ultimate Solution: Completely destroy the hard drive

The final solution, though somewhat extreme but most secure, is to completely destroy the hard drive, you can try to destroy or choose degaussing Service to remove the magnetic disk. In short, we can choose a variety of options to ensure data security, as long as more careful.

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