If you need step-by-step instructions, refer to the article, " What to do with your USB flash drive: Maintain Windows". Step 1: Create the Parted Magic bootable media. Here's how to use Parted Magic to securely erase SSD drives: Parted Magic is easy to use and compatible with most modern SSD drives. The second secure-erase utility is actually included in the Parted Magic suite of tools. The biggest problem with Secure Erase, however, is that development ended in 2008, thus posing compatibility challenges.
It's free and effective, but requires DOS boot media. The first utility is named Secure Erase (HDDErase.exe), and was developed by the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. Fortunately, there are two free secure-erase utilities that do work with SSD drives. Utilities like CCleaner or DBAN are made for magnetic disk drives and won't work on SSDs. Erasing an SSD (solid-state drive) not only sanitizes the drive, but recovers lost performance on systems with inefficient garbage collection.
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