Click in a blank area inside the flash drive window and press 'Ctrl-A' to select all the files. Press the 'Delete' key and wait for the files to delete. Step 5 Right-click the 'Recycle Bin' and choose 'Empty Recycle Bin.' Choose USB Flash Drive Insert your USB flash drive into your computer and launch Disk Cleaner Free. You’ll find a list of hard disks in your computer, including the USB flash drive that is connected. Check it for cleaning. Drive Erase Utility for the Resetting the Cryptographic Key and the Erasing the Solid State Drive for DOS. USB Virus Cleaner 2.6.0.3 can be downloaded from our website for free. You can run USB Virus Cleaner on Windows XP 32-bit. This program is an intellectual property of Imperial Softwares. Try to download (PowerISO) program search it on Google, and Run the program as (Administrator) to give it full permission, then select from the upper Tab 'Tools' 'Clean USB Drive' 'Start' 'Ok' Then it will erase all data in the USB Drive, Now you've to Open 'Command Prompt' as 'Administrator) Then follow the same steps that you would.

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To uninstall Tails from a USB stick, and use it for something else, you have toreset it.

The content of the USB stick will be lost in the operation, but an attackermight still be able to tell that Tails was installed on that USB stick usingdata recovery techniques unless yousecurely clean all the available disk spaceafterwards.

1. Make sure that the USB stick that you want to reset is unplugged.

2. Click on the button, and choose All Programs ▸ Accessories ▸ CommandPrompt, to open the Command Prompt,

3. Execute the diskpart command, to startDiskpart.

4. Execute the list disk command to obtaininformation about each disk in the computer.

   For example:

5. Plug the USB stick that you want to reset. Run the list disk command again.

   A new disk, which corresponds to that USB stick, appears in the list.

   For example:

   Make sure that its size corresponds to the size of the USB stick that you want toreset. Note down the disk number assigned by Diskpart to the USB stick.

6. To select the USB stick, execute the following command: select disk=number.Replace number by the disk number of theUSB stick that you want to reset.

7. Execute the clean command to delete thepartition table from the USB stick.

8. Execute the convert mbr command tocreate a new partition table on the USB stick.

9. Execute the create partition primarycommand to create a new primary partition on the USB stick.

See the Diskpart documentation from Microsoft Support.

Do you want to permanently wipe USB flash drive and ensure that data cannot be recovered by anybody? There are two methods here to safely clear data off USB drive and make nothing recoverable.

Overview on wiping USB drive
When do you need to wipe a USB drive?
ŸHow to completely wipe a USB drive?
Method 1: Wipe USB Flash Drive by Using Inbuilt Format Option
Method 2: Completely wipe USB Flash Drive with Eassos DiskGenius

Overview on wiping USB drive

USB flash drive is a miniature high-capacity mobile storage product that uses a USB interface to connect a computer. It is portable, fast and easy to use and carry. Like hard disk, you may need to wipe a USB flash drive sometimes.

When do you need to wipe a USB drive?

• Get some more space to store new data. Erasing USB drive deletes all data on the device and you can get all free space to be reused.
• The data is sensitive information that needs to delete permanently.
• Secure erase all the data on the USB flash drive before selling the device.
• Remove unknown virus or malware on USB flash drive.
• Change file system format, such as change FAT32 to NTFS, convert NTFS to exFAT or Ext4.

How to completely wipe a USB drive?

You cannot wipe data from the USB flash drive completely with a simple deletion or formatting, because any one can easily recover them with using any data recovery software. USB drive recovery programs can be easily downloaded from the Internet and it is quite easy to retrieve deleted or formatted data from USB drives. To completely clear an SD card, hard drive or USB flash drive needs extra operations. In this instruction, I will show you two methods that to erase data on USB flash drive permanently.

ŸMethod 1: Wipe USB Flash Drive by Using Inbuilt Format Option

All computers using Windows system comes with an inbuilt format option to erase everything from a USB flash drive. However, many of us format disks by way of quick format which completes within seconds, but cannot clean data for good. Actually, we can perform a full format on USB drive, which is able to erase data byte by byte so that files cannot be recovered by any means. How to clean data completely using the full formatting option? Let's have a close look at the process:

Step 1 Insert the USB flash drive into your computer, wait a few second and let the computer do its job - detect the USB flash drive and install the USB driver.

Step 2 Open File Explorer by double-clicking This PC and you can find the drive icon of your USB drive.

Step 3 Open the USB flash drive and move the important data to computer hard drive in order to create a backup.

Step 4 Right-click on the USB flash drive that you want to wipe and select 'Format' option from the context menu.

Step 5 Select file system type from drop-down list and set Allocation unit size. If you do not know how to choose, you can follow suggested option.

Step 6 Unselect 'Quick Format' option and click Start button. Then Windows will start full formatting the selected drive.

Note: Quick format does not erase data permanently, and you can recover lost data from formatted disk easily using data recovery software, while full formatting takes longer time to complete and wipes data complete. If this drive contains important data, you should create a backup in advance.

Method 2: Completely wipe USB Flash Drive with Eassos DiskGenius

Apart from full formatting USB drive, you can also use third-party software to wipe a USB drive. Here we recommend a free Windows partition manager – Eassos DiskGenius to clear data for you. DiskGenius can erase data of any partition or hard disk or USB flash drive directly and easily that the data cannot be recovered by any data recovery software. When erasing data, you can make some other settings.

Step 1 Launch Eassos DiskGenius software from your computer.

Step 2 Select the USB flash drive that you want to erase data and then click on 'Tools' from the main menu and click on 'Erase Sectors' option.

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DiskGenius will pop up this window:

In this window, you can set these following options:

• Change the partition or disk or USB flash drive you want to erase data
• You can specify the sector range that the data need to be erased. If you select to erase data of partition, the sector number means the beginning and the ending sector of the partition.
• You can appoint hex characters to fill sectors.
• You can also set the computer's behavior when you finish the erasing data

Step 3 Click 'Erase'. You can see the following warning message prompting the operating erases data permanently and wiped data cannot be recovered.

Step 4 Click 'Erase' button if you do want to erase data. Also, you can cancel it if you change your decision.

Step 5 Wait for the process to complete.

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If you think this software satisfies your requirement, you can download this tool to erase data. Files cleared by this feature cannot be recovered, which is a good option to protect privacy.

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