Thread: Delete data permanently from Hard Disk

I want to know if I delete my HDD data permanently then does it goes out fully or keep on somewhere in the drive. I want to put up for sale my hard drive which is a 1TB SATA drive. I had formatted every partition of it but it is possible to recover data out of it. Any help regarding this topic is appreciated. Thank you.

When you remove a file or format a HDD or USB key, machine really does not remove data. It only deletes their references in the table of file systems. So there is an chance of getting your data in other hands.

Use software like DBAN to blank your HDD completely. The tool comes as an ISO image that you want to burn a CD. You will then you should boot your system from the CD to start the safe formatting of HDD you would like to blank fully.