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--- microsoft_windows:recycle [2024/07/15 01:36] – rodolico
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 Following is almost as good as DBAN. Basically, you do a factory reset on your computer, erasing all of your data files, all of your accounts, and all of your programs. The only problem is, deleting a file does not actually delete the information on the disk itself; it just makes it inaccessible without using some third party tools. Your "free space" still has all of the information, it is just marked as "you can use this for new files."
-To actually erase all data in the free space (unused part of the hard drive), you can use the Windows built in command **cipher**
+To actually erase all data in the free space (unused part of the hard drive), you can use the Windows built in command **cipher**. NOTE: this does not work 100% with SSD's (see note below).
   - Factory reset machine with wipe all programs/users
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 **NOTE:** this will take hours on large drives
+**NOTE:** This does not work for SSD's. For a nice article on securely erasing SSD's, see the article on [[https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/secure-erase-ssd-or-hard-drive|Toms Hardware]].