Of course, the other option is to securely wipe your hard drive using a sledge hammer. If you can’t find someone, you can always take the computer to your local computer shop and they might do it for a fee. If any of these steps is confusing to you, try enlisting a friend who might be able to help you out. Wiping your hard drive with a tool like DBAN takes some advanced computer know-how. It’s possible to create a bootable USB drive as well, if you prefer that option. That means you’ll need a blank CD and a computer with a CD burner to get started. I like the erasure method that Secure Erase uses more, but for the sake of getting this to work with the majority of readers, I’ve opted to use DBAN instead.

But after more testing I found that compatibility for that tool is in decline as it hasn’t been updated in years.

Originally, I had planned on doing a tutorial on Secure Erase. There are several tools that do this, but DBAN is one of the most popular. DBAN is a program that wipes your entire hard drive so that it’s no longer readable.

Dban to usb