As you probably know, formatting a hard drive doesn't completely erase the data on it. You must overwrite the data to securely destroy it, preferably multiple times. Windows 8 let's you do this with ...

When you run the format command in Command Prompt to format a drive on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, the format operation may fail or be unable to complete and output the message Bad sectors ...

This probably doesn't apply to you, but...<P>If you really want to be sure that absolutely no one can recover data from your hard drive, you need to write random 1's and 0's to your hard drive at ...