I like to run secure erase before I fresh install windows and in the past I’ve used the Magician Utility to make a secure erase utility bootable usb.
However, I believe the secure erase bootable usb process was intended for SATA drives because you have to remove the cables from the SSD during the process.
How can I run the equivalent process for an M.2 drive? I have a 980 Pro with the heatsink. Unscrewing and reseating M.2s isn’t really something to be doing more than once or twice. So there must be another method.
in this case you can create a bootable usb that has killdisk, you just boot into that thumbstick, run killdisk, select your nvme and killdisk has 1-pass, 3-pass etc to wipe the nvme. 3-pass wipes it and writes gibberish total 3 times, so the only data possible to “recover” is that last written gibberish. And in the process it also ages the ssd because…ssd.