IT professionals need to know how to perform the IT data wipe, especially if they have data on their system that might be important to protect. Data wipe a software-based method of overwriting all existing data on an external hard drive or other digital storage media by using zeroes and ones, usually one at a time to overwrite all data on all partitions of the media.

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