Permanently Wipe Hard Drive on macOS High Sierra

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If you want to remove data from a hard drive on macOS High Sierra, you may move the files to Trash and empty it. Or some users will choose to format the hard drive directly in Disk Utility. However, these methods will not make the data permanently gone. With Mac data recovery software, it's easy to recover the deleted or formatted data. When you need to sell or donate the old hard drive or Mac with macOS High Sierra, it's necessary to wipe the hard drive permanently.

How to wipe hard drive on macOS High Sierra? The data wiping software Donemax Data Eraser for Mac can help you permanently erase data from the hard drive on macOS High Sierra or other Mac operating systems. With 3 modes in the software, you can easily erase data from the hard drive in different situations.

Best Data Erasure Software for macOS High Sierra

Why do many users want to wipe data? Normally, it's because some data on the drive is sensitive and cannot be found by others. If you simply delete the files for even format a hard drive, you cannot make the data gone forever. With any professional data recovery software, anybody can easily recover the data from the hard drive. To avoid data recovery on the hard drive, you need to wipe the data permanently with a reliable data erasure tool.

We suggest you have a try with the best data erasure software – Donemax Data Eraser for Mac. The software offers military-level data erasure standards including HMG Infosec Standard 5 (1 pass), Peter Gutmann's algorithm 2 (2 passes), U.S. Army AR380-19 (3 passes), DoD 5220.22-M ECE (7 passes), Peter Gutmann's algorithm 35 (35 passes). You can feel free to wipe data safely with the software. After wiping data from the hard drive with the software, the data will go forever and you don't need to worry about the data breach.

What's more, the software can also wipe data on other devices, including the internal/external hard drive, SSD, memory card, USB flash drive, digital camera, and so on. If you want to erase data from your drive/device, please use the software to help you. The software can also work well with the new generations of Mac operating systems, like macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, etc.

How to Wipe Hard Drive on macOS High Sierra?

The software is very simple to use and there are 3 modes available. If you want to erase data from hard drive on macOS High Sierra, you can download and have a try first. Here is the available download for the software.

Install the data erasure software on your macOS High Sierra system first. Then you can choose a proper mode to wipe data on your hard drive on macOS High Sierra. First, you need to know the introductions for these modes.

Wipe the entire hard drive on macOS High sierra.

Before you sell, abandon, or give away your hard drive, you can erase the drive directly. It's simple and fast to do the job with the mode Erase Hard Drive. You can choose the hard drive from the list and wipe it. It will wipe all the data on the hard drive.

Step 1. Launch the software and change tot he Erase Hard Drive mode. Check and choose the right drive which you want to permanently wipe and click the Erase Now button to start.

Step 2. There you will the options for data erasure standards. You can choose one to wipe the data from the drive. If the data is very sensitive, you can choose a standard with more passes.

Step 3. Now you can start the data wiping process. It will take a while depending on the size of the disk and data erasure standard you selected. Just wait patiently.

Shred individual files/folders on the hard drive.

If you have some files on the hard drive that are not needed but very sensitive. If you don't want the files be found or touched by others, you can use the mode Shred Files. In this mode, you can choose any photos, videos, audio files, documents, or other files from your hard drive. Click the Erase Now button to shred the selected files.

Wipe free space of the hard drive.

The mode Erase Free Space can be used in other cases. If you deleted some files on the hard drive and want to ensure the deleted files will not be recovered with any software, you can use this mode. You can choose the hard drive to erase. It will erase the deleted data on the free space of the hard drive.

Once the data wiping is done, all the selected data is wiped permanently and gone forever. You can test with any data recovery software to scan the drive. Then you will find the wiped data cannot be found or recovered successfully.

Besides wiping data, Donemax Data Eraser for Mac can also do other things for you on Mac. You can use the software to format the hard drive. What's more, the software offers the functions to uninstall apps, clear browser junk data, and remove duplicated files on your Mac. It can help you release more free space.

Conclusion:

The normal methods deleting files or format a hard drive on macOS High Sierra will not wipe the data permanently. The deleted or formatted data is still on the hard drive. It's easy to recover the data with professional recovery software or methods.

In order to shred files or wipe data permanently, professional data wiping software is needed. Donemax Data Eraser for Mac or some other tools can help you permanently wipe data on macOS High Sierra. Also, it's the same for the other older or newer macOS versions, inlcuding the latest macOS Tahoe 26.

Before you wipe data on Mac, ensure to check and back up the important files to another drive. The data wiped by the data erasure tools will not be recoverable.

Donemax Data Eraser for Mac

100% safe and powerful Mac data erasure program. It offers certified data erasure standards including U.S. Army AR380-19, DoD 5220.22-M ECE to securely and permanently erase data from Mac HDD/SSD and external storage devices, making data recovery impossible.

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