How To Clear A Ssd Drive

On this page, you'll learn how to effectively wipe SSD on Windows 11/10/8/7 on your own:

What Is Secure Erase

Secure Erase is a method used to completely wipe out the data on a hard drive using a set of commands. Secure Erase commands write binary one or zero to the sectors on the hard drive to overwrite all the existing files. That's why the data removed by the Secure Erase commands is not recoverable by any data recovery method available.

However, although they are commands. You cannot run Secure Erase commands like you run commands in Windows 11/10 in Command Prompt since they are available from the firmware on the hard drive. Thus, to secure erase your SSD in Windows 11/10, you need third-party software like EaseUS partition manager software to help you execute these operations.

When Do You Need to Wipe an SSD

When do you need to perform a secure erase on an SSD? Completely wiping an SSD is needed when you want to:

Resell the SSD: One of the preparations you need to make before reselling a storage device like SSD is to wipe out all the data on it, which prevents others from accessing your files.
Prepare the SSD for another user: To protect your information, you may want to destroy the files on the storage device.
Clean up SSD for other usages: To clear SSD for OS installation, using it as a game drive, or a second data disk, etc.
Remove virus or malware on the device: If your SSD is infected by a virus or malware, you may want to totally remove it by secure erase your device.

How to Wipe SSD in Windows 11/10

Follow through the process in this part, you'll securely erase SSD and make it ready for any purpose as listed above:

#1st. Download SSD Secure Erase Tool to Wipe SSD
#2nd. Wipe and Erase SSD in Windows 11/10

We suggest you follow the tutorials one by one as presented in this part. If you don't have essential data saved on your SSD, skip the 1st guide and start from the 2nd guide.

 Notice:: It's necessary to stress that before you wipe SSD, you need to back up your files if these files are still useful as you cannot recover your data after secure-erase.; For an effective way to make a backup, free backup software - EaseUS Todo Backup can help you out.

#1st. Download SSD Secure Erase Tool to Wipe SSD on Windows 11/10

Professional partition tool - EaseUS Partition Master will help you securely erase and wipe an SSD in Windows 11/10, fully clean up SSD, making data unrecoverable with ease. This disk/partition management tool has a feature named "Wipe Data", which works almost the same with Secure Erase commands.

"Wipe Data" vs Secure Erase Commands

Both the "Wipe Data" feature and the Secure Erase command erase your data by overwriting all the data on your SSD. However, Wipe Data feature in EaseUS Partition Master exceeds the Secure Erase command:

Secure Erase writes binary 1 or 0 to the disk sectors while "Wipe Data" writes random numbers.
Wipe Data doesn't damage the SSD, while the Secure Erase command will.
Wipe Data in EaseUS Partition Master is easier than Secure Erase, which is especially friendly to beginners.

Get the software to wipe your SSD in Windows 11/10 right now:

#2nd. Simple Steps to Wipe an SSD in Windows 11/10

These operations cannot be undone after applying the changes. Once again, if you have valuable data saved on SSD, back up them at first.

We've set two options for you to wipe data. Choose the one you need.

Option 1. Wipe Partition

Right-click the partition you want to erase data from, and choose "Wipe Data".
In the new window, set the time for which you want to wipe your partition, then click "OK".
Click the "Execute Operation" button in the top-right corner, check the changes, then click "Apply".

Option 2. Wipe Disk

Select the HDD/SSD. And right-click to choose "Wipe Data".
Set the number of times to wipe data. (You can set to 10 at most.) Then Click "OK".
Check the message. Then click "OK".
Click "Execute the operation" and then click "Apply".

Be careful that once the process is carried out by EaseUS Partition Master, the data will become unrecoverable with any data recovery software or service! Wait for the process to complete and then you can use the wiped SSD as a new disk for installing a new OS, games or sell it online.

You may also interest in: How to Install a New HDD/SSD on Windows 11/10/8/7.

The Bottom Line

People might want to wipe or erase an SSD drive for various reasons. Erasing an SSD (solid-state drive) can sanitize the drive. So you can make sure that the virus or malware will no longer hide somewhere in the drive.

Besides, wiping an SSD helps to recover lost performance on systems with inefficient garbage collection. But unlike a traditional hard drive disk (HDD), there are not so many tools that can wipe SSD drive. Here to save your time and efforts, we recommend you to try EaseUS partition software, a secure erase utility that does work with SSD drives.