How to Permanently Erase Data from Buffalo Portable Hard Drive?

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Anna

updated on 2020-07-31 to Data Erasure

Buffalo portable hard drive data erasure

Buffalo portable hard drive provides twice the speeds of standard USB 3.0 drives. And it is cost-effective external hard drive. Millions of users use this external hard drive to store important documents, images and videos, etc. When you are going to sell, donate or dispose an old Buffalo portable hard drive, you’d better permanently erase you sensitive data in it. But, how to permanently erase data from Buffalo portable hard drive?

Buffalo portable hard drive data erasure software

When you delete files on Buffalo portable hard drive or format the Buffalo portable hard drive, the deleted or lost files still can be recovered by data recovery software. Most of data recovery software can help you easily and completely recover deleted or lost files from Buffalo portable hard drive, from formatted or damaged Buffalo portable hard drive. If you want to permanently erase data from a Buffalo portable hard drive, you need special data erasure tool - AweEraser.

AweEraser is a powerful, easy-to-use and safe data erasure program. If offers certified data erasure algorithms (HMG Infosec Standard 5 (1 pass), German FOFIS (2 passes), DOD 5220.22-M (3 passes), U.S. Army AR380-19 (7 passes), Peter Gutmann's algorithm (35 passes).) to help you securely and permanently erase data from any type of hard drive or digital device. Just download it here:

AweEraser can help you securely and permanently erase data from Buffalo portable hard drive (HDD, SSD included). Once your data is erased by AweEraser, the data will be lost forever, can’t be recovered by any data recovery software. So, please make a backup before wiping your Buffalo portable hard drive.

Three modes to help you erase data from Buffalo portable hard drive

AweEraser can help you shred a file, folder, wipe entire Buffalo portable hard drive or erase deleted data from Buffalo portable hard drive. Here are three data erasure modes.

Mode 1. Shred files/folders from Buffalo portable hard drive.

Erase files - add files/folders from Buffalo portable hard drive to the erasure list. Then click on Erase button to permanently erase the selected files/folders.

Buffalo portable hard drive data erasure

Mode 2. Wipe entire Buffalo portable hard drive.

Erase hard drive - select the Buffalo portable hard drive, then erase it. All data on the Buffalo portable hard drive will be permanently erased.

Buffalo portable hard drive data erasure

Mode 3. Wipe free disk space of Buffalo portable hard drive.

Erase free space - this mode will help you wipe free disk space of the Buffalo portable hard drive and permanently erase all already deleted data on the Buffalo portable hard drive. It will not erase the existing data on your Buffalo portable hard drive.

Buffalo portable hard drive data erasure

AweEraser is 100% safe data erasure software - it will not cause any damage to your Buffalo portable hard drive even you wipe it with 35-pass data erasure algorithm. Once the data is erased by AweEraser, it can’t be recovered by any data recovery software.

AweEraser also can help you:

  • Format Buffalo portable hard drive.
  • Repair crashed Buffalo portable hard drive.
  • Erase damaged Buffalo portable hard drive.

As you’ve seen, AweEraser is pretty simple to use. Before you sell, donate or dispose a Buffalo portable hard drive, you can easily use it to securely and permanently erase your private data in it. It also can help you permanently erase data from other HDD, SSD, portable hard drive, memory card, USB flash drive, digital camera, etc. Download it here: