If you decide to change your old hard drive to a more modern one and give it to a friend, or you sell it, then you should be sure of a hundred percent removal of information from it. There are thefts of important sensitive information from discarded disks.
When you format a hard drive or delete a partition, you are usually only deleting the file system, making the data invisible, or no longer blatantly indexed, but not gone. To date, there are a lot of programs that in a few hours will restore your information from erased areas, even formatted drives.
If you want to make sure that your private information has gone forever, you’ll need to wipe the hard drive using special software.
You can get acquainted with tips and additional information about cleaning hard drives in this post.
