Windows 10: How to wipe an SSD Windows !0 Laptop of all Perosnal data?

Hi,


there seems to be various post on this subject but I am unable to find the answer I need.


I have a Surface Pro 4 which I intend to sell and need to wipe all the perosnal data. There are clear instruction how to do this - but there is NO clarrification as to if this applies only to HDD or also to a SSD.


If an SSD is there any further steps needed?


Would appreciate a straight and clear answer!

:)

 

URGENT: How to WIPE HDDs before Selling my PC

I have 2x 500gb HDDs in RAID 0 and 1x SSD with windows 7 installed on it.

Is there a way to completly WIPE my hard drives WITHIN windows (since windows is not on my HDDs but on my SSD?

What about my SSD?
It's only got Windows 7 on it with NO personal data. Can I just sell my PC and keep my SSD as is ?
Or should I wipe it as well?

Any EASY way to do this as I'm not an expert on Formatting and Wiping drives

 

Help, cant create windows image

Hello there, @fullinfusion!

It seems like some sort of an OS confusion has happened with your secondary WD Black and I'm sorry to hear about that. *Frown
Maybe re-formatting it would help indeed as the community already mentioned. I'd suggest to take a look at this step-by-step how to partition and format an HDD: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=PYCoid
Keep in mind that this will wipe clean the drive, so you should backup all important data from the drive somewhere else.
I noticed from the screenshots that your HDD appears as Disk 0, this means that it's plugged in the primary SATA port where the SSD (as an OS drive) should be. Actually it is possible that because of this Windows cannot create the image there. Swap the ports of the SSD and the HDD, this might help as well.

Keep me posted. Hope this helped! *Smile
SuperSoph_WD

 

How to safely wipe the SSD and HDD of my laptop at the same time?

Hi,

I would like to know which is the best tool for wiping of the SSD and the HDD of my laptop at the same time?

The Win 10 OS is installed on the SSD,and I would like to wipe it,but I would like to wipe and the HDD too!

Please tell me!
Thanks to all in advance!
Best regards!