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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Toshiba has announced [PDF link] a new hard-drive technology, WIPE, that can automatically delete sensitive data on loss of power or should the HDD be removed. Intended for Toshiba self-encrypting ...

As your business grows, you may decide to upgrade your company workstations and dispose of your old computers. Discarding hard drives can problematic because it's quite likely that they contain ...

Are you selling or giving away your computer? You may have already deleted personal files and information, or you may have reinstalled or reset Windows, thereby ...

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 ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico, leading-edge developer of DoD wipe software, announced today version 3.5 of BCWipe Total WipeOut. Jetico’s long-trusted solution to wipe hard drive data can now ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...