How To Clean A Seagate External Hard Drive

Existent user case
When demand to erase a Seagate external hard drive?
Software to wipe clean Seagate external difficult bulldoze in Windows PC
Steps to secure erase Seagate external HDD&SSD
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Real user example

"Howdy, my old 1TB Seagate external difficult bulldoze has been working for many years and its operation tin not meet my requirements any longer, and then I am planning to resell it and buy a new 2TB external hard bulldoze. Simply I have stored a large number of data on the hard bulldoze, so I want firstly to clean all the existing and history data on this Seagate external difficult drive. Can I just format it? Or how tin I totally wipe Seagate external hard bulldoze? Thanks in advance."

Why need to erase a Seagate external hard drive?

When the time comes to erasing everything on a Seagate external difficult drive, many user will first think of formatting the hard drive via a disk formatting utility. However, does the formatting erase everything permanently? Sorry to say no, that's because the formatting procedure just makes the data invisible to the operating organisation, but they are still there and can be recovered easily.

To completely erase all information from the Seagate hard drive and make them impossible to be recovered, you need to use a professional hard drive wiper, which can completely wipe hard bulldoze out to protect your information well.

Software to wipe make clean Seagate external difficult bulldoze in Windows

In order to permanently and safely wipe out the data from your Seagate external hard drive, you lot can utilize AOMEI Partitioning Assistant Professional person. For wiping make clean Seagate HDD, it provides "Wipe Hard Drive" feature, with four dissimilar wiping methods bachelor for option:

1. Fill sectors with cipher : wipe the hard drive contents by overwriting them with zeros. Each scrap nowadays in the disk is replaced by a zero value, hence the proper name zero filling.
2. Fill sectors with random data : fill the disk with random data instead, making it harder for recovery software to detect any meaningful data. It is considered more secure.
3. DoD 5220.22-M : a software-based data sanitization method used in file shredder and data destruction programs to overwrite existing information on hard drive for 3 passes. It can preclude all software based file recovery methods and most hardware-based recovery methods from lifting data from the drive.
4. Gutmann : wipe the hard disk and overwrite the existing information for 35 passes to ensure the data are securely sanitized.

To wipe clean Seagate solid-state bulldoze, it offers the "SSD Secure Erase" part. It can securely and permanently clean upward the data on your SSD bulldoze and decrease the data recovery risk. Now let's effigy out how it works.

Steps to secure erase Seagate external HDD/SSD

If at that place are some files or data you want to keep, brand a backup via AOMEI Backupper in advance since all the information volition be cleaned on the external drive subsequently wiping the external hard bulldoze.

PS.: You can download the Pro demo and have a try commencement.

Part 1. Wipe make clean Seagate external HDD permanently

1. Install and launch the software. Locate the Seagate HDD and correct-click on it to select "Wipe Hard Drive" from the drop-down carte.

2. In the pop-up mini window, cull a proper method to wipe Seagate external HDD according to your specific requirements.

3. Click "Employ" to ostend the functioning and click "Go on" to execute the awaiting operations.

☞ Autonomously from wiping entire (Seagate) external hard bulldoze, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional also enables you to wipe simply one partitioning on the hd. For example, y'all can wipe C partition for a fresh installation within Windows.

Part 2. Wipe clean Seagate SSD

Unlike from HDD in reading as well as writing ways, so the Seagate SSD should be wiped out in a unlike method. The "SSD Secure Erase Wizard" offered by AOMEI Partition Assistant could ensure all data stored on the SSD storage device will be completely cleaned without damaging SSD functioning and lifespan.

But this characteristic could merely work in Windows7, so firstly please connect the Seagate SSD to a computer running Windows7 and make sure information technology is recognized. Then follow the steps:

i. Run AOMEI Segmentation Assistant Professional on your reckoner, right-click the Seagate SSD drive and select "SSD Secure Erase".

2. Choose the target SSD bulldoze and click "Next".

3. At the "SSD identification information" page, yous may find the SSD is in a frozen state. Perform a hot-swap then that y'all can continue to wipe out the Seagate hard drive.

Note: as for how to perform a hot-swap, refer to the tutorial provided in the window by clicking "here".

4. Click "Next" to showtime wiping all information on SSD drive completely.

Conclusion

Afterwards you lot wipe Seagate external hard drive (HDD or SSD), the whole disk space volition get an unallocated space in Disk Management. If you want to use information technology over again, y'all can utilize the Quick Partition (offered by AOMEI PA Pro) to create several new partitions in ane click. Besides, wiping or erasing the Seagate external hard drive is likewise a skillful way to reset Seagate external hard drive to factory setting, or tackle with SSD dull consequence.

No thing which brand of the difficult bulldoze yous want to wipe, the AOMEI Sectionalisation Assistant Standard will never let yous down. If your computer runs Windows Server 2003, 2008 (R2), 2022 (R2), 2022 and SBS 2003, 2008, 2022, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.