They won’t make warranties or claims but pretty much you can be fairly certain your data will not be recovered and you can safely sell or donate an old computer after you sanitize the hard disk with DBAN. In short your data is completely demolished so that it is unrecoverable, or near unrecoverable as in it would take an extreme amount of effort to attempt to recover any valid data from your drive. It will wipe everything from encrypted files, NTFS metadata, cookies store, index.dat file, registry, swap file and uses several passes to make sure the data is near unrecoverable. One of my favorite tools to wipe your hard drive clean is DBAN Darik’s Boot And Nuke.ĭBAN is a software tool that can be downloaded and easily installed to create a boot CD or DVD image that you can load and configure to wipe your hard drive clean. Unless you already suffered from hard drive data destruction one of the most important things you could do if you get a new computer or laptop is to wipe your hard drive on your old computer so that the data is properly destroyed just in case.

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