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 ...

There are easier and safer methods for erasing hard drives - including SSDs - than 10 years ago. Windows has two easy methods and Mac OS X has another. They are built into the operating system and are ...

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Sometimes simply deleting files isn’t good enough. In this how-to video segment, PC World explains a number of simple techniques for permanently and securely removing sensitive data from old drives ...

Q In a recent column, you wrote about cleaning off a hard drive with an "erase" program before getting rid of the computer. But I've been told that none of those programs really cleans up the hard ...

If you only have a few hard drives to erase, then a software solution such as DBAN or a hardware solution such as using a hammer to pound 6-inch nails through the drives is workable. But if you go ...