Erasing HDD and SSD

[saplinganims]

Hello,

I just sold my computer, and I need to delete my information before I give it to my buyer. I am on windows 10, and I have a crucial SSD and a traditional hard drive. I bought parted magic, and I just erased my hard drive, but parted magic says my SSD is unsupported, so I can't delete the SSD. If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. My operating system is on the SSD, and I have a boot USB drive with windows 10 on it.


Thank you,

Porter

 

[Paul NZ]

Crucial may have their own hdd erasing program. or use dban. That'll take a while

 

[Chugalug_]

I like to format my HDDs several times over before running Dban.

 

[saplinganims]

Okay, so I found out that crucial has a tool to do the job. But the drive cannot have a mounted partition and the system has to be in AHCI mode. I don't know what that means, so if anyone can explain that I would be very grateful.

Also, what does formatting an HDD mean?

Thank you!

 

[Paul NZ]

Formatting wipes whats on the hdd.

Well you'll have to do it on another computer then if ahci isnt enabled in the bios on this.

And if the other hdd doesn't have windows on it

 

[saplinganims]

Okay, so AHCI is enabled in the BIOS.

My other HDD doesn't have windows on it, and I only have a macbook pro if I need another computer. I'm starting to get confused. My software says I can't clean the drive because it has a mounted partition on it. But my SSD, which has the OS, says its the primary partition. Should I remove the drive letter?

Thank you,

Porter

UPDATE: I actually just loaded my windows boot media in the computer, then I formatted my drive and now windows is installed and all my information is gone. So I think I solved the problem, is there anything else I should do?