How to safely wipe a router before sale

[Munk]

Hi fellow Carbies

As the title suggests, I need to wipe two routers of any personal/sensitive data before I attempt to sell them.
I am also clueless as to how I can test them to confirm everything is good before a sale thread is created.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Cookie]

Good question,

Cant you just factory reset the router, wont this remove all data?


Another one iv been thinking of lately is,

How to safely wipe a harddrive before sale.

I don't think people realise you can recover almost 100% of data once a drive has been formatted.

 

[Munk]

Good question,

Cant you just factory reset the router, wont this remove all data?


Another one iv been thinking of lately is,

How to safely wipe a harddrive before sale.

I don't think people realise you can recover almost 100% of data once a drive has been formatted.

I have HDD's that I'm planning to recover through a local company in the near future.
The threat is real.

 

[crumbs]

Good question,

Cant you just factory reset the router, wont this remove all data?


Another one iv been thinking of lately is,

How to safely wipe a harddrive before sale.

I don't think people realise you can recover almost 100% of data once a drive has been formatted.

Used DBAN before - small bootable program that overwrites entire HDD. Not too sure about SSD's though.

 

[patherlord]

I've used DMDE that I purchased to do a recovery of a drive that I formatted. File structure etc remained intact. Scary! There is software available that writes over all recognisable data when formatting.

 

[nagapie]

Good question,

Cant you just factory reset the router, wont this remove all data?


Another one iv been thinking of lately is,

How to safely wipe a harddrive before sale.

I don't think people realise you can recover almost 100% of data once a drive has been formatted.

They will only get my anime collection and anime soundtracks

But it is a big problem. Also phones I'm sure are an issue as well as one normally has more personal info on them