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 ...

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.

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.

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SSDs came on to the mass market roughly when self-encrypting drive (SED) technology did, so unless you have a very, very old SSD, the utility to "wipe" the drive just deletes the encryption key.

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.

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").