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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TL;DR: The Data Shredder Stick Secure Data Wiping Tool can wipe hard drives on Windows PC’s for just $39.99 (MSRP $59.99).

I have a bunch of old workstations for a client and I'm wondering if there's a quick/easy way to wipe all the hard drives? Like a boot disk I can use that will quickly format the drive? Doesn't need ...

BCWipe Total WipeOut Supports User Data Erase Command for NVMe to Meet NIST Purge Requirements "The NIST guidelines for media sanitization are widely accepted and followed internationally, but they ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico, developer of best-in-class data wiping software, today announced support for newer Apple computers. With this release, BCWipe Total WipeOut delivers a reliable ...

"Deleting" a file does nothing of the sort: the file is still on your hard drive, you just can't see it anymore. Cheap file recovery software will reclaim the data in a flash. Which is why smart folks ...

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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 ...