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US DoD 5220.22-M (8-306./E) (3 passes) – A 3-pass sanitization method specified by the United States Department of Defense.

German VSITR (7 passes) – Developed for Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, this 7-pass method is no longer used by that government for erasing classified information and documents but is more than sufficient for most civilian uses.

Schneier 7 pass (7 passes) – Designed by Bruce Schneier, this method uses 7 passes and was originally laid out in Schneier’s book, “ Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C”.

US DoD 5220.22-M (8-306./E, C & E) (7 passes) – A 7-pass sanitization method specified by the United States Department of Defense.

Overwrites the data with 35 different patterns, some of which are irrelevant for modern disk drives.

Gutmann (35 passes) – Designed in 1996 to erase drives when you don’t know the algorithm used to encode the data on the disk.

Reply if something goes wrong and further assistance. I suggest you to format in Fat32 instead of Fat16 for USB drive. Then click Addįinally Click Tick sign on the top to format it. Then right click and chose New option then setup the ditails. Once all deleted it will show a partition with unallocated. Repeat above step for all partitions listed there. ( Be sure that disk/partition is not mounted, if mounted then right click on partition and then select unmount option) It will then show all the partition on the selected HDD/Removal Disk.Ĭlick on each partition and press Del or right click and select Delete option. On the top-right it will list Your HDD/Removal Disk which you want to format. Open gparted from Dash (you need to give your password) Install gparted if not already installed. But it does remove the partition information so the entire disk is available for new partitionsįollow these steps to prepare your entire disk. After doing this, data will still be recoverable. Warning: This will not remove the data from the disk. Actually I found Gparted as the most user friendly tool to create/delete/format partitions.