Hello,
I have a laptop and an external hard drive and I wish to wipe them out both. There are just some minor issues I am having, so it would be great if someone could help me.
1. (There are software that can fill drives with 0s or 1s and) I already had installed MiniTool Partition Wizard, which gives you the option of filling a hard disk with 0s, 1s, 0s + 1s, DoD 5220.22-m and DoD 5220.28-STD. Which one should I choose? I read a bit about the last two, but unless you have some really questionable things on your HDD there's no point in using those methods, right?
2. It doesn't matter if that program which i am using is used to wipe a usb flash drive or a HDD, does it?
3. I know that you can use diskpart to wipe a disk, but can you use it on the HDD that is currently on use?
4. Is it any helpful to fill your HDD with 0s more than once?
If anyone can give me some help, I would really appreciate it.
(Out of topic) Bonus question:
5. As I said, I want to wipe out the HDD of my laptop which currently has Windows 10 Home pre-installed. After I wipe out my HDD I am going to reinstall Windows 10 Home edition with the method that was introduced with the Media Creation Tool. I just need to know, there won't be a problem with the activation of Windows 10 because I wiped out my HDD, right?
I have a laptop and an external hard drive and I wish to wipe them out both. There are just some minor issues I am having, so it would be great if someone could help me.
1. (There are software that can fill drives with 0s or 1s and) I already had installed MiniTool Partition Wizard, which gives you the option of filling a hard disk with 0s, 1s, 0s + 1s, DoD 5220.22-m and DoD 5220.28-STD. Which one should I choose? I read a bit about the last two, but unless you have some really questionable things on your HDD there's no point in using those methods, right?
2. It doesn't matter if that program which i am using is used to wipe a usb flash drive or a HDD, does it?
3. I know that you can use diskpart to wipe a disk, but can you use it on the HDD that is currently on use?
4. Is it any helpful to fill your HDD with 0s more than once?
If anyone can give me some help, I would really appreciate it.
(Out of topic) Bonus question:
5. As I said, I want to wipe out the HDD of my laptop which currently has Windows 10 Home pre-installed. After I wipe out my HDD I am going to reinstall Windows 10 Home edition with the method that was introduced with the Media Creation Tool. I just need to know, there won't be a problem with the activation of Windows 10 because I wiped out my HDD, right?