How to Completely Wipe Your HDD in Windows 🧹

Learn the correct methods to securely erase your hard drive in Windows. Many believe formatting is enough, but this guide shows you how to truly wipe your HDD for privacy and security.

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How to properly erase your Hard drive in windows environments.
Lots of people still are under the impression that formatting a drive will erase all the data there was, when this is not quite the case.
In the video I will show how to wipe the drive properly.

I've tested this to work atleast on windows xp, vista and 7

The command to run is cipher /W:drive to be wiped

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Jan 15, 2014

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