Data Deletion

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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Hello.

I’m not sure if posted this in the right category as I’m on mobile. I apologize if I didn’t.

I own a WD Blue Drive, but I’m returning it because it was defective. But before I send it off, I want to know if there’s a way to make sure my data is REALLY deleted off the drive.

Thank you.

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Hi: ruie

Western digital has a Write Zeros To Drive tool.

at Internal Drives, SSDs & Embedded Flash
Select your hard drive and download Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (current version 5.27)

Follow the instructions to create a bootable USB.

Turn off you computer and remove the sata power connector from all the hard drives.
Connect the hard drive that you think may be defective or want to test.
Turn on the computer.
Set your bios to boot from a USB device.
Type dosdlg.exe

Select WRITE ZEROS TO DRIVE and do a full erase.

It should take about 2 to 2.5 hrs per terabyte depending on the computer.

It not only erases the hard drive but it also checks to see if it is working properly.

if the drive is defective it will come back with an error code that WD support wants for a RMA.

NotaCanada

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Hello! Thank you very much! Worked out smoothly.

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your welcome

NotaCanada

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If you are on a Mac, you can Erase a non-boot drive from inside Disk Utility. Click on Security Options and choose 2 pass or more to thoroughly erase all data on the drive.