Erase Files from Dell Laptop Drive

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Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

How to erase data from Dell Laptop hard drives?

Planning on selling your Dell laptop? Before giving it, you might delete all the data from the laptop by using “Shift+Delete” key, or delete files from the recycle bin and drives. You might even format the hard drive. Are you sure just by doing so, all the data is permanently deleted from your laptop? No, it does not work this way! Formatting or re – formatting the drive, only destroys the allocation information from the file system. The actual data will be still present in the system. You can easily recover data from a formatted disk drive or after deleting the files from the system. Files might be your personal files like photos, videos etc, or your business data. Others might misuse the data or files present in your system.

You can save various different file formats on the laptop hard drive. Photo file formats like JPEG, JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, TIF, BMP, PSD, CRW, NEF, ORF, RAW, X3F, etc. Music files such as MP3, WAV, MP4, M4A, AIFF, AMR etc. Video files like AVI, MP4, M4V, MPEG, MOV, MPG etc. and other files like Word documents, Text files, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint files and various other popular files types. Others can easily misuse any of these important files. Thus, it is very important to permanently delete all the data from laptop hard drive.

You need to use wipe drive software, to delete all the files permanently. This software will help to erase the data completely by overwriting the data several times using different data shredding patterns. This tool helps to erase data from various Windows Operating Systems such as Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows 2008. One of the most powerful methods used by this software to erase the data from the hard disk drive is the Peter Guttmann secure deletion method, which overwrites the data area using 35 write passes. Other ways to wipe disk, to permanently erase the hard drive data, software uses these methods i.e. Fast zero Overwrite, Random Overwrite, US Navy, NAVSOP-5239-26_RLL, German VSITR-US Department of Defense (DoD 5220.22-M), NATO standard, US DoD (DoD 5220.22-M) _DOD Standard 5220.28 STD, DOD Standard 5220.28 STD and US Department of Defense (DoD 5220.22-M) +Guttmann method.

This software helps to erase data from laptop hard drives and from other storage devices like erase USB drive data, external hard drives, memory cards and computer files. It is very simple to use this tool. You need to download and install the software to the system from which you want to erase the data completely. Then follow the steps to erase the deleted data from the hard drive. This tool helps to shred the files or folders from specific partitions and hard drive. It supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system. You can erase files on memory cards such as SD cards, CF cards, XD cards, MMC, SM card using this software.

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Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Follow these steps to erase data from hard drives:

Step 1: Download and install this software only if you want to completely erase the data from the hard drive. Then launch the software.

Step 2: Once the software is launched, the main screen is displayed with the list of logical drive and physical drive as shown in the figure. Select the logical drive if you want to wipe the specific logical drive otherwise select the physical drive from the list to completely erase the entire physical hard drive and then click on “Next” button.

Erase Data from Dell Laptop Hard Drives - Main Window

Select Drive

Step 3: Now, select the suitable sanitization standard from the next screen and then click on “Next” button as shown in the figure.

Erase Data from Dell Laptop Hard Drives - Next Screen

Select shredding pattern to wipe the drive

Step 4: After clicking on “Next” button, a confirmation message will appear. In order to continue erasing process of the selected hard drive, then click on “OK” button.

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Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

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