2. Degaussing the Hard Drive. You can wipe a hard drive using a strong magnetic force to scramble the data stored on it, in a process known as degaussing. If you use this method, you will also wipe the start-up files that control the hard drive booting process. This means that once you have degaussed a hard drive, you can no longer use it.
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