The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk dev ...

You can wipe a hard drive and data drives through your Windows 10 Settings, the DBAN utility, and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode.

Securely Wipe a Hard Drive on Windows Connect your hard drive to a Windows computer and it should show up in File Explorer, in the left-hand sidebar. Right-click the drive and click Format.

How to Securely Wipe a PC Using ShredOS ShredOS runs on Linux under the hood and boots from a USB stick, as you cannot wipe your device's hard drive if you are booting from it.

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If the current hard drive isn't working, you'll have to pay the shop to install a new copy of Windows 7, which either you or the shop can buy online for about $25 (search Google for "buy Windows 7").