Is it possible to permanently delete data from an SSD while leaving the OS (Windows) untouched?

Question

Solid State Drives

Good afternoon... It is necessary to delete confidential files leaving Windows... Is it possible? and how to do it?

Answer 1

as easy as shelling pears: you delete confidential files, then you burn ordinary movies to the disk in full so that there is no more space on the disk. Then erase these films and that's it, no troubles ...

Answer 2

To delete files permanently, you need to have the data blocks occupied by these files be overwritten with random data or zeros. There is a special software for this, which is full on the Internet. On unix-like systems, this is done with dd for example.
Fill disk sda1 with random data:
Fill disk sda1 with zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1

Answer 3

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