How to Wipe Hard Drive on Acer Laptop Easily

Why Need to Wipe Hard Drive on Acer Laptop?

Your Acer laptop may store a lot of your important documents and personal information, especially after you have used it for many years, you may want to sell your computer or give it to someone else. Well, at this time, you need to delete all data on your computer to prevent data leakage. You have two ways to achieve your goal.

In the first situation, if you just need to do a factory reset on your Acer laptop to delete all files and keep the system on this disk. Then you can use the built-in tool Acer Care Center to reset the computer.

In the second case, if you want to completely wipe the hard drive data on the Acer laptop, then it is recommended that you use professional disk wiping software. Being a Windows computer, the Acer only has Disk Management and Diskpart to format or delete the disk, neither of which can completely wipe out your data, and using a data recovery tool might get your information back.

How to Wipe Hard Drive on Acer Laptop

Next, this article will tell you how to delete everything on acer laptop according to the two situations mentioned above and their corresponding solutions. Each method includes a detailed graphic tutorial. You can read on for more details.

Method 1. Use the Built-in Tool - Acer Care Center

Some users may have this question “how do I wipe my acer laptop to factory settings”. If you just need to delete data and reset your Acer laptop, you can choose Acer's built-in management tool - Acer Care Center. This software can back up and restore your system settings and network drivers. You can follow the steps below.

Step 1. In the search box on your laptop, type Recovery, then click Acer Recovery Management.

Step 2. Click Recovery Management.

Step 3. In Acer Care Center, click Get started next to Reset your PC.

Step 4. Click Remove everything.

Step 5. Click Just remove my files or Remove files and clean the drive depending on your needs.

Step 6. Click Reset.

Then you’ll see your screen shows the Acer logo and you need to wait for a while once you finished all instructions. Your PC might reboot several times, it’s common.

Method 2. Use Professional Third-party Wipe Software – AOMEI Backupper

As mentioned before, if you plan to transfer your hard drive to someone else, just formatting and deleting it is not safe enough. They just make your data "invisible" to your OS, but your data is still on disk. So, the risk of data breaches still exists. In order to prevent this data from being recovered, you need a complete wipe to protect all privacy on the hard drive, no matter what machine you use, you need a disk wipe tool to completely clean your hard drive.

The professional disk erasing software AOMEI Backupper Professional can help you accomplish your goals easily, and the data will not be recovered after erasing.

• You can choose to use this software to erase partitions or entire discs according to your needs.
• It is a disk erasing software for Windows PC users, supporting Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP systems.
• It provides users with 4 methods to completely erase all data and overwrite useless data to prevent data from being retrieved.

Download and install AOMEI Backupper Professional. Since wiping the disk will erase all data, it is recommended that you backup files in advance. Then, you can start to completely wipe the hard drive according to the steps below.

Step 1. Open AOMEI Backupper Professional, install, and open it. Then click Tools > Disk Wipe.

Step 2. Select Wipe disk and click Next.

Step 3. Choose the disk you want to clean and click Next.

Step 4. On the Wiping Method page, choose Fill sectors with Zero. Then click Start to begin the zero filling process.

Notes:

• Fill sectors with Zero: This method overwrites all data with zeros, which is a safe and fast way to erase.
• Fill sectors with random data: This method uses random numbers to overwrite the source data on the disk.
• DoD 5220.22-M:  DoD 52220.22-M wiping method can erase disk from 3 times to 7 times.
• Gutmann: If you pursue the most thorough erasing way, you can choose Gutmann which can wipe a disk 35 times.

Step 5. You will then be taken to the erase process page. If you want to stop the process, you can click Cancel in the right corner. When the operation is complete, click Finish.

Summary

This article introduces why and how to wipe hard drive on Acer laptop with two methods. If you just want to delete data and reset the computer, then you can use Acer's built-in tool. If you want to completely wipe hard drive, you can choose the professional disk erasing software AOMEI Backupper Professional to achieve the goal. It provides 4 erasing methods, you can choose different methods and erasing times according to your own needs. Data will not be recovered after wiping.

Besides, it is an excellent backup and restore software, you can backup system, disk, partition and files. If you need to restore the system backup to a computer with different hardware, its Universal Restore function can also help you achieve your goal. You can download this software to explore more.