By Sophia | Last Updated
When you connect external hard drive on Windows 10/8/7 computer, you can directly open the external hard drive and locate the files to delete. Where the deleted files go? Yes, it goes into your Windows computer recycle bin. And if the computer/external hard drive belongs to the company, others can restore the files from the recycle bin or data recovery software and check your private information. It is not safe for you to delete personal or confidential files in this way even you can empty the recycle bin. Here in this tutorial, you will learn the how to delete files from external hard drive permanently and make the deleted data unrecoverable.
As people attach great importance to the security of personal information, they can now choose a secure program to delete files from external hard drive permanently without recovery. File Deletion Genius is such a program that helps you to permanently delete files from hard drive/external hard drive/USB.
This software supports a variety of file formats: Word document, PDF, Excel Worksheet, Access data and etc. With this program, the deleted files cannot be recovered by the data recovery tools. Therefore, you should think twice if you are going to remove the data from external hard drive in this way.
Step-1: Get File Deletion Genius on your computer.
You can download the software and install it in minutes. For the free trial version, it is limited to delete 10 files. If you have a larger number of files on external hard drive to delete, you need to use the paid version.
Step-2: Connect your external hard drive to the computer.
Regardless of the external hard drive brand, WD external hard drive or Toshiba external hard drive or others, you just need to make it right connected.
Step-3: Run File Deletion Genius and locate the files.
Click the Add button and you will get a whole view of the storage devices on your computer. If you want to delete the whole files of the external hard drive, you can just click the box near your external hard drive as the screenshot shows. Then, click the OK button to continue.
If you want to delete certain number of files from the drive, you can click your drive number and find its folders and files. Next, choose the files you want to delete forever. When all files are chosen, you can click the OK button to go ahead.
Step-4: Choose the Erase mode and click the Delete button.
The Slow Mode is chosen by default. This mode is safer with more complete data erase.
Step-5: Get a warning box and agree with it by clicking the OK button.
After that, the file deletion process will be finished in minutes. All the files will be removed from the external hard drive and files cannot be recovered.
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