If you’re ready to invest in a new computer, and your thinking about donating your old computer to a charity, local group or school, it’s important to make sure your computer’s hard drive is ...

When disposing of old hard drives, it is important to ensure that no company data remains on the drive for someone to find and exploit. One way to delete data is to format a drive, using the same ...

Since the Help Desk launched last year, we've received loads of requests for the best ways to preserve different kinds of data in our lives: think voice mails, conversations and even cherished home ...

The fact that reformatting a hard drive doesn’t completely erase the data stored on it is both a blessing and a curse depending on your circumstances. For example, if you reformat your hard drive ...

Whether you've replaced your computer's hard drive or are getting rid of an entire computer, it's important to wipe the old hard drive. Employing a hard drive wipe utility helps to ensure that ...

If you didn't know, when you delete a file or empty your trash can, it isn't actually wiped from your hard drive. To make sure that a deleted file stays deleted, you must securely wipe your hard drive ...

You can wipe a hard drive much easier now with the help of your Windows 10 Settings menu and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode. It's also possible to wipe a Mac data drive through the ...

Do you ever have to dispose of old computers or return leased PCs at your company? If so, then one of your No. 1 priorities should always be to securely wipe each hard drive to make sure none of your ...

Thinking about selling, donating, or just upgrading your desktop or laptop? Before you hand it over, youâ ll want to make sure all your personal information is gone for good. Just deleting files isnâ ...

Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), working with L-3 Communications Corp. (New York), said they have developed a technique for quickly erasing hard-disk drives. The team ...