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Costa_Rica
Oct 25, 2024Copper Contributor
how to completely wipe usb drive on Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC?
Hi all, I have dozens of important and sensitive files stored on my USB drive, and I’d like to ensure they’re permanently deleted so they can’t be recovered. I know that simply deleting files fro...
- Oct 28, 2024
I’ve used DrWiper myself to wipe old USB drives before selling them—it’s dead simple and nukes everything beyond recovery. Definitely give it a shot if you want peace of mind!
Check: https://www.ulitewin.com/how-to-completely-wipe-usb-drive
Worth a try!
AdrianDavies
Oct 25, 2024Iron Contributor
Hi, If you want to 100% swipe files off a device I would recommend using something like Killdisk to do a MoD grade clean of the files. This is normally done by it writing zeros and then ones to the drive sectors, depending on the mode selected it may do this once or multiple times.