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If you are going to sell your old computer, it is very important to eradicate confidential data stored on the hard drive of your computer before selling it. Don’t provide your personal information to other users with your old PC. If you haven’t deleted the data permanently, then your personal information or company secrets can be stolen.

You should always keep in mind that if you have deleted the data manually by formatting the hard drive, an identity thief may still be able to retrieve those data using data recovery software. It may put you and your business at risk.

Therefore, to protect your private information from external use, you need to completely wipe your hard drive. You can wipe the hard drive using Stellar Disk Wipe software. It is drive wipe software that erases your private data completely and permanently from the hard drive beyond the possibilities of recovery. You can wipe your hard drive using Stellar Disk Wipe by following these simple steps:

Step 1: Wizard Intro Brief description about Stellar Disk Wipe is given in the introductory page of the wizard. Please review the information carefully and then click Next to proceed.


Step 2: Disk Selection In this phase, the wizard will show all hard drives attached to the system along with its details such as Disk No., Disk Size, Model No. and Serial No. Hard disk(s) appears in the list according to the boot sequence configured in the BIOS.


Step 3: Choose Wipe Method This phase of the wizard will provide you different wiping methods. The algorithms are arranged in such a way that the fastest one with maximum overwrite speed is on the top of the list and the algorithm with maximum number of passes towards the end.


Step 4: Start Wipe The final phase of the wizard will give the summary of what you have chosen. It will show the selected disk and wiping method. Review the summary carefully and click Finish to continue. Incase of any changes, you have an option to click Back and revise as required. Click Cancel, if you want to exit from the wizard.


Step 5: Finish As soon as you click Finish, confirmation message pops up. If you are sure to continue then click Yes to start wiping. When the process is complete, you get a message indicating that Stellar Disk Wipe has successfully wiped the selected hard disk.

Permanent and complete removal of data from hard disk