How to safely delete data from a USB flash drive?

Question

USB flash drives

Good afternoon,

I'm going to give away the flash drive that used to have my files. Interested in how you can delete data from this flash drive without the possibility of recovery?

Answer 1

How can I delete data from this flash drive without the possibility of recovery?

If you have Windows Vista or newer, you can do a full format (long).
You can do a full erase with a special program, for example, Eraser .
You can run a write test for the entire volume in a program that can do a full disk check, for example, in R. tester .
At the same time, look at the state of memory and you can figure out if you are handing a kamikaze horse with a stick of dynamite in its mouth.

Answer 2

The simplest thing is to record films to the eyeballs, but erase them.
If you want to get confused - then in Linux - do something like this

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M # /dev/sdX - партиция флешки

Or at the request of wipe hard drive - a bunch of programs, the essence of which is the same - single or multiple overwriting of the disk with random data.