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Format USB drives - best software?
 

Which is the best software to use to format usb drives and one that would make the files on the drive unrecoverable?

Re: Format USB drives - best software?
 

How about a hammer? =P

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Just plug in the drive, right click and format the disk.

That should suffice - I mean you don't specifiy any special situation that requires anything beyond this to be honest with you.

I hope you have been alright.

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Re: Format USB drives - best software?
 

Is it an SSD, or a regular HD? And how important is it that the info isn't recoverable?

For an SSD, you should use the drive manufacturer's own tool. Usually called Secure Erase.

For a regular HD, right click>format should do the trick for Vista and later OSs(do not check the quick format option). You can always use a hex editor and check that it did, in fact, write all zeros. If your drive has bad sectors, though, you won't be able to access/overwrite the data on those sectors.

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Use bleachbit as advertised And endorsed by Hilary Clinton

Re: Format USB drives - best software?
 

CCleaner, dban, or disk wipe. Any program with a Military Grade Wipe or similar.
Another way is to fill the usb disk with a bunch of random files to overwrite what was on there before.
Also look into partition management software, some of them have tools to perform multiple passes to erase data.

Re: Format USB drives - best software?
 

Use Linux and commands from the terminal, this is the safest way. Or else just destroy it and buy a new drive.

Re: Format USB drives - best software?
 

Normal format it and then put any data on it and then format again the first data will not be recoverable