format e: /fs:ntfs /p:1

He plugged the external drive in. It appeared in his file explorer. He didn't want to just format it; he wanted to scrub it.

Elias sat down in front of his aging Dell workstation. It hummed loudly, a relic of the Windows 7 era. He knew that simply dragging files to the Recycle Bin and hitting "Empty" wasn't enough. He knew that formatting the drive wasn't enough either. He had seen enough true crime documentaries to know that "deleted" data is rarely truly gone. It lingers in the magnetic platters, waiting for someone with the right software to resurrect it.