[Discuss] delete windows user data from dead laptop

[Steve Litt]

Rich Pieri said on Mon, 26 Feb 2024 08:48:38 -0500

>Regarding scrubbing sensitive data: unfortunately for you, the only way
>to reliably do that on flash-based SSDs is to issue the ATA secure
>erase command which will zero out the whole drive. But if the
>partitions are encrypted then throwing away the keys (clear/reset TPM
>for bitlocker keys) should be sufficient for most use cases.

I typically use the "hammer it to 1 square centimeter pieces" erase
technique. If really paranoid, throw the pieces in several unrelated
dumpsters. I use this for spinning rust too.

SteveT

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