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How to wipe a hard drive completely on Windows 11?
Hi everyone, I'm planning to sell my Windows 11 device and want to securely wipe the hard drive to ensure none of my personal data is recoverable. I've heard that just deleting files or even rese...
It is possible to recover deleted files after a factory reset on Windows 11, but it depends on how the reset was performed. If you chose the "Remove everything" option without using the "Clean data" feature, your data might not be fully overwritten, meaning recovery software can still retrieve it.
Tools like Windows File Recovery or third-party programs can scan the drive for traces of your old files and attempt to restore them. However, the success of this recovery depends on how much new data has been written to the drive since the reset.
If you have important data on your 11 PC, factory reset is not enough to secure ease hard drive on Windows 11. Instead, you need a dedicated app for doing that.