DESTRUCT USB Gadget - Military Grade Hard Drive Wiper - Permanently Erase All Data on PC and Laptops Before Selling

I have 2 old PCs I want to recycle, one of which is a HP Touchsmart, which I really didn’t want to disassemble just to destroy the hard drive. The Destruct drive seemed just the thing. It arrived promptly in perfect condition. I followed the directions (6 short steps) and just let it run. Plug the fob into the USB port and hit (for the HP anyway) ESC key to boot from the Destruct drive. The process uses a three pass process. Pass 1 took about two hours to complete, but it’s not like you have to watch, so no big deal. The second pass encountered a CRC check error so I had to start the process all over 3 times before the second pass would start. If I might make a suggestion to the developer to handle the error a bit more cleanly that would be great, but really not too big a deal. The second pass had to run overnight and took almost 24 hours! But this is the pass that really destroys and verifies the destruction of your data, so it is doing a lot of work. Besides I’m getting rid of this pc because it’s so slow. Third pass does a final wipe and ran in about an hour And this pc is totally dead. There is NOTHING left on this hard drive! All in all I am very pleased with the product and the seller.

I don't know if this key was corrupt but I spent hours over three days trying to get it to work with no luck. I tried everything I could think of and tried to find help online, but there isn't much. I ended up removing the HDD and physically destroying it.

Saw this on a youtube channel and thought wth why not. tested it and man not sure why folks were having issues booting from USB or didnt know how to enable it in their bios. This thing works great and it is pretty quick at doing a full wipe on a machine especially a gov level wipe. So far pretty impressed and got a few more laptops to use this awesome device on and start building them out again.

I have been wanting to get rid of my old laptops but didn't know how to wipe the hard drive, so the old machines kept accumulating. The Destruct Pro worked on my 32-bit Sony Viao laptop that had Vista on it in about 3.5 hours (wiped 149 GB), my Sony Viao running Windows 7 took about 16 hours (wiped 596.2 GB) and my HP Pavilion running Win 10 took 9 hours to wipe clean (931.5 GB). I am a NOVICE at things like this and had to use the internet to figure out which machine used what F-key to access the BIOS. I then figured out how to re-order the boot drive on each machine (it is described to the right on your screen). My HP running Win 10 was the most difficult to get into the BIOS, which surprised me as it was the newest machine. After wiping each one clean, I double-checked by turning my laptop on and seeing "Operating System Not Found". While I beat my head on the wall alot the last 3 days, I am so pleased I got this device to work and now I can take my laptops to the recycler without worrying about someone seeing my personal information on the machine. I do recommend this product, but just know it is not plug and play easy - it takes a bit of work to use but it worth it in the end.

Great! It works well to erase or wipe Hard Drives, Solid state drives.

This is one of the best wiping tools on the market. Its fairly cheap and easy to use. We found that it performed a 100% wipe of data and was unrecoverable!! Would strongly recommend!

It doesn’t work as advertised.

It worked well and wiped the entire computer, including the operating system, which I had not read it would do.