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Why not just use BitLocker to wipe a drive?
I have some old external and internal hard drives as well as an SSD I need to wipe before giving away.
There's lots of software out there to wipe a drive clean (single or multipass writes, military grade algorithms, etc.). But they can take anywhere from hours to days to run.
Why not just use BitLocker on Windows 10 Pro to encrypt the entire hard drive and then reformat the drive? If any data on the drive is left behind, isn't it all encrypted and unrecoverable anyway?
BitLocker approach is so much faster and easier. Is there a the down side? Am I missing something? I don't see the BitLocker approach mentioned very often.