• How To Completely Erase A Usb Stick

Possible Duplicate:Author edit Actually I think the duplicate is this one: /editI have a USB stick returned to me by someone else. To maintain confidentiality of what it was used for I want to perform a secure erase on it so that data recovery tools cannot retrieve the contents - I don't know whether the same tools that are used for HDD's can be used on USB sticks, or whether a format will actually overwrite the existing (and deleted contents).Is there a simple app that can perform this task? Freeware preferably. All of the other answers do provide ways to prevent the drive from being read using OS based recovery tools, however if the drive swapped out sectors due to bad sector errors/wear leveling (I doubt low end USB keys will do this but it is possible) the data could be recoverable by reading the flash memory chip directly and bypassing the controller.See from the security SE site for more details and read the section on Wikipedia's 'Data remanence' article.

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Once something has been written on any drive (flash/SSD/Spinning Disk) if you can not bypass the controller and write directly to the media then you can not trust that the data is ever 'gone'. Dummy File creator, then a quick format. Similar to a wipe, A dummy file creator can be used for other things too:-) Tight, tiny, easy fast, one shot, one write, because it is writing a standard file, there is no thought to the file system. This one for example is 23k without installer, and the installer is very unnessisary.Assuming you use the above utility, you could just Quick format (if needed) Check the properties for about how much space.

How To Completely Erase A Usb Stick

Run the dummy, type in the size of the file you want, Browse to put it direct on the flash drive, push the button, and ignore it until it is done.Just like a dummy:-) if I screw it up, all it does is put a big file somewhere:-) instead of wipe the wrong disk.