How Do You Really Erase A Hard Drive?
If you delete a file from your computer, it does not permanently disappear. Just because a computer user deletes information from the hard drive does not mean it is gone from the hard disk. Using the delete command on a computer simply deletes the reference to the information, but the data is still there. Make sure the computer was built after 2001. In computers built prior to 2001, the only way to ensure all data on the hard drive was erased is to physically harm the hard drive by physical destruction or degaussing. Most of these computers came with a DOS-level function called Secure Erase, but it is not turned on because the makers did not want people accidentally deleting everything from the computer’s hard drive. Download the Secure Erase program from the Internet. Unzip the Secure Erase application and save or burn it to a writeable CD-ROM or a floppy disk. Access the BIOS boot order to boot from the CD-ROM or floppy disk (whichever was used to save the application). Different com
