How to clean up a hard drive?

Question

Hard disks

Hello!
Is there a way to clean up the hard disk (HDD) without the possibility of data recovery?
I'm about to sell a hard drive, and I don't want the buyer to be able to recover deleted information later.

Answer 1

Use literally any low-level disk cleanup program. In particular, AOMEI Partition Manager has this feature.

Answer 2

Use any disk cleaning program.
In addition, I note that, for example, a HDD for a couple of terabytes will not be very quickly overwritten, you need to set aside several hours for the procedure in advance.

Answer 3

Download R.tester (free, you don't need to install it) and run a write test in it: https://rlab.ru/tools/rtester.html
And wipe everything tightly and test the disk at the same time.
You can also save the results both as pictures and as a file with all the details (it must be opened in the same R. tester) in order to show the buyer later.

Answer 4

Eraser to help
Delete all partitions
Do one or three passes
Or Veracrypt
Delete all partitions
Encrypt the entire area
https://itsorm.medium.com/encrypt-system-hardware...

Answer 5

Format via property

Answer 6

cipher /w:<путь>

Answer 7

Structures calmly restore information from hdd after three times overwriting