I like to run secure erase before I fresh install windows and in the past I’ve used the Magician Utility to make a secure erase utility bootable usb.

However, I believe the secure erase bootable usb process was intended for SATA drives because you have to remove the cables from the SSD during the process.

How can I run the equivalent process for an M.2 drive? I have a 980 Pro with the heatsink. Unscrewing and reseating M.2s isn’t really something to be doing more than once or twice. So there must be another method.

  • onomatopoetix@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    in this case you can create a bootable usb that has killdisk, you just boot into that thumbstick, run killdisk, select your nvme and killdisk has 1-pass, 3-pass etc to wipe the nvme. 3-pass wipes it and writes gibberish total 3 times, so the only data possible to “recover” is that last written gibberish. And in the process it also ages the ssd because…ssd.