

But before we get to the solutions, let’s figure out the need of wiping an external hard drive and the preparations you need to do before wiping. If you have the same need as the user in the above case, then you’d better read this tutorial completely and carefully, which will help you solve this problem easily whether through system tools or reliable disk wiping software as recommended in this article. Any thoughts on a software that will allow me to wipe the Samsung drive while it’s on the cable? Thanks in advance. I want to sell off the old drive after I wipe it clean but it appears that neither the WD nor Samsung software will not do either as it’s on a cable. I have a USB cable and can see the drive in explorer. The drive I removed with W10 on it is a Samsung. I did a fresh install of W11 on a new WD SSD for an all-in-one that only has one set of cables for the drive.
