How To Clean A Hard Drive

[goian123]

Hi everyone sorry if this has bin posted before couldnt see it anywhere, I want to completely wipe all the memory off of an old hard drive so its like new, because im going to move it to my new pc, is it possible? because i heard that just deleting the files doesnt completely get rid of everything.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, once installed in the new computer, which as yet you haven't said in which way, either as just extra storage, or to install different operating system, or even connect the existing drive with it in a RAID formation, it doesn't matter, once connected and the system recognises new hardware, you can then use the existing operating system to reformat the (new to it,) drive.

Once that is done, any old data will be written over as it is used with no problems.

 

It is only if disposing of a used drive when there may be sensitive personal data on it, where you need to worry about totally wiping it so it cannot be read by anyone else.

 

Nev.

[goian123]

oh rite ok thanks man;)