Table of Contents

Why Should Wipe WD External Hard Disk Drive?

Are you going to sell your external hard drive to someone else? When you want to sell your WD external hard drives because you need some money, you must delete or format the hard drive until the whole files are deleted. However, you must remember that when you delete your files from your WD (western digital) external hard drive, it does not mean that you totally delete them. Since those files are still able to be recovered by a special tool – such as Do Your Data Recovery. So, this is dangerous if you do not really wipe the files inside the hard drive.

Someone may still have a chance to recover your files while those files are important and personal. Therefore, in order to wipe WD (western digital) external hard drive files permanently, you have to use our special tool which is developed specifically to wipe WD (western digital) external hard drive data forever without having any chances to recover.

wipe western digital external hard drive

Therefore, we recommend you to download and use our DoYourData Super Eraser. This software is the most effective software to wipe western digital external hard drive permanently. This software is really easy and simple to use. You just need to install it on your computer either Windows OS or Mac OS. Next, you can run the program and select the wipe mode you want to perform.

Before wiping data on western digital external hard drive, please download and install Super Eraser on your PC or Mac. Then run it and connect your western digital external hard drive with your computer. Here are some tips to wipe WD (western digital) external hard drive file permanently.

Mode 1: Erase Files and Folder on WD external hard disk drive

Run the DoYourData Super Eraser and select Erase Files/Folder mode. This mode is the first option to erase your files and folder but you can still choose whether you want to wipe all files or just several files. If you already select the files, then you can just simply click "Erase Now".

wipe western digital external hard drive

Mode 2: Wipe Entire WD External Hard Drive

This mode is used when you want to wipe WD (western digital) external hard drive files totally and permanently without selecting the files. So, you will not see your files because you only see your partition. If you are really sure to perform this wipe mode, you can select your hard drive partition, and then just simply click "Wipe Now" and there will be no single files left on your hard drive because they are all already wiped permanently.

wipe western digital external hard drive

Mode 3: Wipe Free Space

You can also wipe WD (western digital) external hard drive but it will not wipe the existing data on the hard drive. This mode is only used to wipe the lost and deleted data or any traces on the partition. Do not worry, because the existing data will be saved.

wipe western digital external hard drive

Those are three modes that you can perform to wipe WD (western digital) external hard drive files permanently. If you really want to feel secure before you sell your hard drive, you have to download this software. We guarantee that your erased data will never be able to recover because it is totally wiped with no chance of recovery. Download here to try this Software.

DoYourData Author

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.

Read full bio