If the unlocking is successful you will be prompted to do a 'hard reboot' - this means turn off your system and turn it on again. If HDDErase says that the drive is password locked and offers to try to unlock it, say Yes. If the drive supports the necessary ATA Security feature set command, you can proceed S1 (note: Some SSD drives also support this feature - make sure you select the correct drive!) Now type in the drive you wish to erase - e.g.
(if no drives are listed then change your BIOS HDD settings to disable AHCI/Enhanced mode and try again!) If you have problems on a particular (newish) system when using HDDErase or MHDD, I suggest your try the latest version of DBAN.Īfter a few more prompts, you will be given a list of detected drives: does not need a bootable USB drive or bootable CD). The second section ('NUKE') describes how you can run HDDErase directly from the same system disk that you want to erase and this method does not need any other form of boot media (i.e. iso file into the \_ISO\UTILITIES folder, rename it as HDDErase.isoDOS01 and run B:\HDDErase.exe from DOS after it has booted. Note: if you have an Easy2Boot USB drive, just copy the. The first section below describes how to prepare a bootable USB Flash drive (or any USB drive), so that you can boot from it and run HDDErase.exe on any system that will boot from a USB drive. So HDDErase is actually both faster and better as a 'security wipe' program than other types which merely erase the normally accessible sectors of a disk. HDDErase also wipes hidden sectors and also those sectors marked as 'bad' and which cannot be overwritten by normal wipe programs - these sectors contain old user data which could be accessed by an advanced engineer or hacker. You can save hours of time when erasing a hard drive. This is MUCH faster as the erase utility does not have to write GBs of data to the drive. However, if you use CMRR Secure Erase ( HDDErase), it sends a special command to the hard disk which tells it to erase itself. Many 'Erase' programs work by writing all 00's to all normal sectors on the drive. However, you must reboot your system to a different operating system first as Windows normally will not allow you to overwrite it's system files whilst it is running. You can use a special 'Erase' utility to wipe your entire hard disk.
remove Windows, Linux, boot code, Master Boot Record, partition tables, pictures, games, music, browser password files, financial spreadsheets - everything) remains. Just re-installing the Operating System using the original manufacturers CD/DVD will not remove your personal data! So first you should wipe all the data from your hard disk so that no data at all (i.e. If you want to sell or give away or dispose of your system you should first wipe the data from the disk.
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