Erase Toshiba Laptop Drive Data

Wipe Toshiba Laptop Hard Drive

If you lose your files from the computer, you can recover those files using recovery product. What if you want to dispose the files on your hard drive and don’t want anybody to recover those files? In such situations, you need to wipe out the hard drive. You may be selling the laptop to someone else. Your system contains some important and sensitive files which are very confidential. You need to perform drive wipe on your hard drive before it falls into someone else’s hands. Wipe disk software helps you keep your files safe and secure from others.

Working on your Toshiba computer for long and enjoying its features is an unexplainable joy. There are varieties of laptops from Toshiba. It has Ultrabook laptops, 3D laptops, high performance laptops, desktop replacement laptops, built for business, low cost, entertainment, built for the class room and so on. These laptops come with variable screen size, security features, latest technologies and much more. You can flick the one which matches your requirements. It can store lots of data of different types including documents, photos, movies, songs, games and so on in its memory.  The hard drive has the capacity to store up to 1 TB of data on it. You may want to wipe the data from the hard drive for many reasons. Some are discussed ahead in the article.

Need of wiping the drive:

The data can be recovered using recovery software. Hence, you should wipe the drive if you want to permanently delete data from the storage drive. If you format of reformat the drive then also it is not enough to dispose the data. When you wipe the drive, the data on the drive is erased and overwritten so that nobody could recover and access the data. You may come across the situations as given below to wipe data from the drives.

Donating the external device: The external drive may contain important and confidential files in it. Deleting the data is not enough to be sure of no data leakage. It is better to wipe out all the data from the drive. You never know when you will be into a trouble because of the data getting exposed to others. If you have sensitive data on your USB drive then in such situations you need to wipe USB drive using efficient data wiping software. Wipe disk software does it at the best.

Erase confidential data: Suppose you are an investigator, a cop or so, then you will be always worried about the confidential data with you. There will be a threat of enemies, terrorists or undercover agents of notorious group snatching your confidential data like passwords of the gates of jails and so on. If you are a bank employee then you might be having locker passwords with you. In such cases, you should wipe out all the data on the storage drive. Wipe disk software helps you wipe out the data from the storage drives.

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Features of Wipe disk software are as follows:

The Wipe disk software wipes out all the data from the storage drives. It is compatible with Windows based computer. Hence, you can wipe Windows hard drive and external drives connected on to it. The software uses different shredding patterns to overwrite the data on the storage drive. The software overwrites the drive again and again that you can be sure that the data on the drive can’t be recovered. The software can wipe external drives as mentioned earlier; you can count on wiping of drives like USB drives, flash drives, memory cards and so on. Therefore you can wipe memory card easily using the software which has your personal data. The software has maximum number of drive wipe methods in it. The software supports Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista Operating Systems of 32-bit as well as 64-bit processors.

Follow simple steps to wipe the drive using Wipe disk software:

Step 1: Download the Wipe disk software and install it on the Toshiba laptop. Launch the software and select the drive to wipe from the main page of the software. You can wipe a logical drive or the whole hard drive by selecting the drive and clicking “Next” button.

Select Drive

Step 2: Select a sanitization method amongst the 9 methods from the next window of the software and click “Next”.

Select shredding pattern to wipe the drive

Step 3: Click on “OK” button when you get a confirmation message to start the erasing process of the hard drive.