Secure Erasing A Physical Drive - ASROCK A75 Extreme6 Installation Manual

1.7 Secure Erasing a Physical Drive

Warning
When you secure erase a physical drive, you permanently delete all data on the physical drive. There is
no way to restore your data after a secure erase.
Do not secure erase a physical drive that belongs to a logical drive. This action will cause the logical drive
to go Critical or Offline.
Back up any important data before you use this feature!
Important
Once you begin, you cannot exit the Option ROM Utility until the Secure Erase operation is finished. Secure Erase
takes about the same amount of time as a partition and format. Plan ahead and allow yourself enough time.
The Secure Erase feature overwrites all sectors on a physical drive. To secure erase a physical drive:
1 From the Main Menu screen, press 1 to see the View Drive Assignments screen.
2 Press the arrow keys to highlight a physical drive you want to secure erase and press Ctrl-H. The caution
screen appears.
3 Press Y to continue. The settings screen appears.
4. Optional. Press the arrow keys to highlight the settings you want. Press the Backspace key to delete, then enter
a new value for:
10