ShredOS securely wipes storage devices to destroy data, helping prevent privacy breaches, identity theft, or financial harm.

This feature works for various external storage devices, including hard disks ... Long press on the external drive, and select Erase from the resulting menu. Enter a new name for the drive ...

Select your hard drive, then select Security Options. From here, slide the slider to Most Secure. Follow the prompts asking if you really want to erase the drive, and sit back while it runs.

A fear when partitioning your hard drive, or performing any such intrusive operation on your hard disk, is that you may accidentally erase data stored on it. In this guide, I’ll break down the ...