wipe drives

Hi. My name's Gavin. I've been having this problem with my PC for a while now, mostly because I haven't had the time to get around to fixing it. My specs are: i7 8700K GTX 970 Asus z370 Corsair 16gb 2400mhz ram And my OS was on a Kingston SSD. I was playing farming simulator one day and I...

hey all. Im getting new pc parts and i want to fully wipe and reuse my two 1 tb HDD drives and my windows 250 gb SSD . Only problem is that i dont know how to properly wipe the 2 HDD's. I already know how to wipe my SSD where windows is located. Much thanks for the help!

I am upgrading my pc from an intel cpu to a Ryzen cpu and have to also put in a new motherboard. I have read that when you put a new motherboard in you should reinstall windows. However every time I have fresh wiped my hard drive and ssd in the Windows settings it always has windows already...

Afternoon all! I am in the process of selling an old gaming laptop. I used the Windows tool to reset the laptop to factory settings in an attempt to wipe my old sensitive data clean. Well as you all know that process truly doesn’t wipe the drives “clean” and when I actually went through the...

I'm having trouble finding Windows 7-relevant answers to this and half of google results want me to download some shady utility and I'm not sure what's actually standard procedure or what I can trust. Background: I just built a whole new, separate PC and want to resell my old one as it's still...

A friend of a friend worked security for a company that went out of business and bought their servers. I got one of them, a Dell Poweredge r710 with one Intel Xeon E5530. I was able to boot it up and to find it has Citrix XenServer on it but everything is password protected. I want to wipe it...

Hi Tom's Hardware Community, I have a question.. Please read the whole question (do NOT say to replace the PC, I won't) I still own the Very First PC I ever owned, I of course now own another more powerful PC, but I love keeping it for the nostalgic feel & it's more sentimental then anything...