Data is of utmost importance for businesses and consumers in today’s digital world. Everything from documents, emails, and passwords to financial information is stored on your hard drives or SSDs.

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...

Secure Erase and HP Disk Sanitizer are tools used to remove data from a hard drive or solid-state drive permanently. The deleted information cannot be recovered. Use Secure Erase or HP Disk Sanitizer ...

Why You Should Care: Almost every company eventually has to dispose of older hard drives, and they need a way to ensure (and prove) that the data on those drives was securely deleted. The Lowdown: ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico's new major release of their hard drive wiping software, BCWipe Total WipeOut, includes an exciting new feature: central management for both wiping and reporting ...

Why “delete” and “format” do not really erase an external drive When I delete a file from an external drive, the operating system usually just removes its entry from the file system index and marks ...

QUESTION: 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 ...

Drag files to your computer’s trash, and they’re not really gone—most can be recovered with basic tools. Whether you’re wiping a single file or scrubbing an entire hard drive, the Data Shredder Stick ...

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...

Q: Microsoft told me that I need a new hard drive for my Windows 7 laptop. Should I buy a new hard drive or a new computer? I don't want Windows 10. Alicia Vidal, West Miami, Fla. A: Buy a new hard ...

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...

Since I'm home from college for a bit I've been roped into the role of the family tech support guy, but the truth is I'm in over my head on this one: It seems that awhile back one of home computers ...