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I need to remove the hard drive from my old Dell Inspiron 4600 but can’t wipe it as I now have now way to hook it up. I don’t want to donate it with all the info that’s in my hard drive. Please help! (I’m no techie, but I can follow instructions and use tools) Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Hi @drasine You can consider downloading tools like Hiren https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ Once you had downloaded, you can have the option to burn it into a cd or to usb thumbdrive (preferred as it is fast). You will need another working computer to do so. There is a tool in hiren you can use to format it. Hard Disk Tools – Security HDD Low Level Format Tool v4.40 For a less secure method, you can download windows 10 installer from microsoft, once download is completed, you can either burn it to a disk or usb, which usb is preferred as it is faster. boot it up and delete all partition. After which, you do a clean windows installation over. For a secure erase, i know there is a tool which can help, but it is not cost effective for you, like wibetech hdd eraser, without a need of pc. else if it is a concern, and there is no much option left, i would rather you remove the hdd
