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Donating Your Computer

If you’re unwanted PC is still in working condition, donating it is the best way to go. Doing so would help you in keeping toxins like mercury, lead and other electronic byproducts out of environment. You can donate your computer to any school or charity.

But you should always erase all data from your computer hard drive before donating it because if you don’t erase it, your identity can be theft. You shouldn’t donate your computer after simply formatting the drive because this data can be recovered using data recovery software. When you delete a file or format the hard drive, only the table of contents is deleted from the file system entry.

In order to keep your confidential information safe, you need to wipe the hard drive. You can perform this task with the help of Stellar Disk Wipe software. This is an outstanding data erasing software that completely wipes your hard drive and erase all the data stored on your computer including system files and operating system. Drive Wiped using Stellar Disk Wipe software is beyond recovery.

You can wipe your hard disk drive using Stellar Disk Wipe by following these steps:

Step 1: Wizard Intro Brief description about Stellar Disk Wipe is given in the introductory page of the wizard. Please review the information carefully and then click Next to proceed.


Step 2: Disk Selection In this phase, the wizard will show all hard drives attached to the system along with its details such as Disk No., Disk Size, Model No. and Serial No. Hard disk(s) appears in the list according to the boot sequence configured in the BIOS.


Step 3: Choose Wipe Method This phase of the wizard will provide you different wiping methods. The algorithms are arranged in such a way that the fastest one with maximum overwrite speed is on the top of the list and the algorithm with maximum number of passes towards the end.


Step 4: Start Wipe The final phase of the wizard will give the summary of what you have chosen. It will show the selected disk and wiping method. Review the summary carefully and click Finish to continue. Incase of any changes, you have an option to click Back and revise as required. Click Cancel, if you want to exit from the wizard.


Step 5: Finish As soon as you click Finish, confirmation message pops up. If you are sure to continue then click Yes to start wiping. When the process is complete, you get a message indicating that Stellar Disk Wipe has successfully wiped the selected hard disk.

Permanent and complete removal of data from hard disk