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permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

When you are going to sell your Surface device, you probably want to wipe its hard drive to prevent potential data recovery. When talking about ‘wipe hard drive’, some users may think that ‘wipe hard drive’ is ‘format hard drive’. Actually, it is completely wrong. Wiping hard drive means permanently erase all data from a hard drive. We all know that the lost data on a formatted hard drive can be easily recovered by data recovery software. For example, data recovery software is able to easily recover deleted and formatted data from Surface hard disk drive.

How to permanently erase data from Surface hard drive? The fastest way is using data erasure program. DoYourData Super Eraser is a data erasure program which is able to securely and permanently erase data from any type of hard drive or external storage device. It offers advanced data erasure technology to securely wipe hard drive so that all the data on the hard drive will be erased permanently, can’t be recovered by any data recovery software. Download it here:

DoYourData Super Eraser is a 100% safe data erasure program. It will not cause any damage to your Surface device and it will not shorten the service life of erased Surface hard drive. Once your data is erased by DoYourData Super Eraser, the data will be lost forever, can’t be recovered by any data recovery software.

Three methods to permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

DoYourData Super Eraser is complete DIY data erasure tool. It is very easy to use. Moreover, it offers three flexible data erasure modes to help you permanently erase data from Surface laptop. First of all, lets show you how to wipe hard drive on Surface laptop with DoYourData Super Eraser.

Method 1. Wipe hard drive on Surface laptop.

Step 1. Run DoYourData Super Eraser on your Surface laptop, then choose data erasure mode - Wipe Hard Drive. This mode will format and wipe a hard drive. All data on the hard drive will be permanently erased.

permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

Step 2. Select the hard drive you want to wipe and click on Wipe Now button.

permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

Once the process gets finished, all data on the hard drive is gone forever, can’t be recovered by any data recovery software.

permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

Method 2. Selectively shred files from Surface laptop.

If you only want to erase some of files on your Surface laptop, just try Ease Files/Folders mode. Select files/folders to the erasure list and click on Erase Now button to permanently erase the selected files/folders.

permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

Method 3. Permanently erase deleted data on the Surface laptop.

This method is able to help you wipe free disk space of a hard drive and permanently erase all deleted data on the hard drive. It will not affect the existing data.

permanently wipe data from Surface laptop

Before you sell your Surface laptop or give it away, you’d better permanently erase all your sensitive data such as Word documents, photos, Excels, videos, emails, etc. With DoYourData Super Eraser, you can quickly wipe all data from your Surface hard drive. This data erasure software also can help you erase data from USB flash drive, external hard drive, memory card, digital camera, Mac, Windows computer, etc. Download it here:

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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