When it says, clean all was successful. There is no progress bar.

Also, SSD based drives behave differently, because the controllers may choose not to overwrite a specific nand due to wear.

recuva

why do you need some bloatware BS when you have disk part already installed?

Dban if they are spinning disks... if it's an SSD, see if the manufacturer has a tool for secure erase.

I thought a normal format just checked the disk for bad sectors because a full rewrite can degrade the disk, especially if it's an SSD. I may be wrong because I never use that method, so I'll need to check

@@teksyndicate hmm. I think a normal forma- does it check the disk? I don't know myself... I think it just goes for writes though throughout the entire partitioned segment.

Might as well face it I'm a hard drive in a cage... 🎵

Yep, it's good to go after

If you have it backed up, you can erase it before you put it back in the laptop. This method will work for that

@@teksyndicate thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate the response.!!

Logan is mostly water.

This is the easy mode... if the bios allows multiple passes, then it will be better (possibly overkill). Don't do multiple passes on an SSD unless you are throwing it away.

There's better ways, but no one's going to be collecting your drive and attempting to un erase it after it's been zeroed... (which probably takes forever, on top of needing very high skill levels and forensic tools). Unless you think you are being spied on, then you might as well smash it.

Obviously yes

That's so overkill though... Unless you are a government entity being spied on, no one is going to go through the trouble of undoing a zero erase with specialty processes. The amount of time and skill that takes and the amount of drives you'd need to go through to find anything of value is such a waste of time, it just doesn't happen. I'd happily sell any of my drives after a full format / single pass erase.

@@volvo09 a full format just delete the system file and checks for drive errors A simple scan with recuva will show everything still there and in 100% health and anything not at 100% health had a partial write over by another file after deletion You have to at the very least do whats in the video But writing the whole drive full video files is the only way to make sure that data cant be recovered if somehow your attempts at wiping a drive are nill It doesnt even take that long… for a 12TB HDD automatically writing the same 100GB video file will take 17 hours then do the video method and your done in about 3 days And you say its a non issue… but if your a dumbass that stores passwords on your PC or have your browser set to remember passwords or any of that crap you can kiss your accounts goodbye should someone wish to steal your shit which some people do, they make an illegal living off of buying used hard-drives and stealing bank details and email address’s and passwords (having access to your email means all of yoyr shit is now there’s enable 2FA or get rekt) anything they can get there hands on Better safe than FKed over for everything your worth

What's a CD?

M.2 is a form factor. There are wifi cards for laptops that use the M.2 as their connector. They are not the same...

@@1nkvbvs So then when specifically on the subject of storage, say "M.2 SSD" and not something like "M.2 or an SSD".

shut up linux nerd