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Photo: Seagate<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published by USA Today<\/strong>.<\/em>
\nBy Rob Pegaro<\/em><\/p>\n

When it’s time to donate or ditch an old flash-memory drive that stored sensitive information, deleting those files isn’t enough. The safest way to wipe the slate clean is actually to encrypt it — and that’s not as hard as it sounds.<\/p>\n

The computer industry\u2019s migration from hard drives to flash drives has mostly brought good things. Flash drives work faster and, since they store data in solid-state memory instead of on spinning magnetic platters, they also work longer.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re a lot smaller. If you\u2019re not sure if your external drive is flash or not, seeing if it fits cleanly into a shirt pocket should is your easiest cue, followed by its complete absence of noise.<\/p>\n

But when it\u2019s time to wipe a drive so you can sell or donate it to somebody else, flash drives impose complications that hard drives don\u2019t: Because they automatically move bits of data to less-used areas of the drive to extend longevity, the traditional secure-erase technique of overwriting files with random data may not clear out all of it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Apple removed the \u201cSecure Empty Trash\u201d command from the macOS Finder in 2015\u2019s El Capitan version. It didn\u2019t want people thinking they could scrub a file from a drive when the attempt might not succeed on a flash drive.<\/p>\n

You can still use the method of dumping random data three times in a row on an entire flash drive, although tools to do that are less than obvious in both Windows 10 and macOS High Sierra.<\/p>\n

On a PC, open the command prompt from the Start Menu and type \u201cformat e: \/p:3,\u201d (if \u201ce\u201d isn\u2019t the letter for the flash drive, change that accordingly). On a Mac, open the Disk Utility app, select the drive, click \u201cErase,\u201d then click \u201cSecurity Options\u2026\u201d and move the slider control to the third, \u201c3-pass secure erase\u201d option.<\/p>\n

Mike Cobb, director of engineering at the data-recovery firm DriveSavers, noted that your flash drive\u2019s vendor may provide an app with simpler secure-erase tools, pointing to ones from Intel, SanDisk and Samsung.<\/p>\n

The other reason to avoid this method is that it can be painfully slow on large drives–a 2017-vintage Windows laptop needed 22 minutes to do a triple overwrite of a 4 GB flash drive.<\/p>\n

Encrypting the entire drive to make its contents unreadable without a key–then erasing it and encrypting it again–takes much less time to make your data disappear. Both Cobb and Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist for the Center for Democracy & Technology, endorsed that strategy.<\/p>\n

On a Mac, right-click the drive you want to wipe and select \u201cEncrypt\u201d and then follow its prompts. If you don\u2019t see that prompt, it may be because the drive was formatted for use with Windows systems; open Disk Utility, select that drive, click \u201cerase\u201d and go with the default settings. Either way, you\u2019d then use Disk Utility to erase the drive, then repeat the encryption step. Finally, erase it in Disk Utility again to leave it free for the next user.<\/p>\n

Things are a little more complicated in Windows, thanks to Microsoft not supporting disk encryption in the Home editions of Windows. (Dear Microsoft: Home users care about privacy too.) If you run a home version of Windows, you\u2019ll have to use the open-source VeraCrypt app for this task.<\/p>\n

Install and run it, then click \u201cCreate Volume\u201d and then \u201cEncrypt a non-system partition\/drive.\u201d Choose \u201cStandard VeraCrypt volume,\u201d click \u201cSelect Device\u201d and then \u201cRemovable Disk\u201d–where you should only see one drive selected, assuming you unplugged other external drives first.<\/p>\n

After encrypting the drive, reformat it (right-click it on the Windows desktop and choose \u201cFormat\u2026\u201d), then repeat the encryption step. Reformat it a second time so the next user doesn\u2019t get a prompt to decrypt it.
\nThis is a bit more work than taking a crowbar to a dead hard drive. But learning how to encrypt drives–a must if there\u2019s any risk of somebody stealing your computer–is worth going to that trouble.<\/p>\n

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Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. To submit a tech question, e-mail Rob at rob@robpegoraro.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com<\/a>\/robpegoraro.<\/em>
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