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 ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

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 ...

CDs are inexpensive, small and lightweight. This makes them easy to store, carry around and mail. They're also user-friendly. Today, many different kinds of audio-visual data are stored and sold on ...

You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean ...

Are you getting rid of your computer? You may have erased your private data by deleting files and reinstalling Windows, but but you’re not quite done yet. These ...

In a recent study, a research team purchased roughly 100 hard disks off eBay and found half of them to contain sensitive information, including insurance records, biographical information about ...

Erasing an SSD drive not only sanitizes the drive, but recovers lost performance on systems with inefficient garbage collection. We'll show you how to securely erase your SSD drive. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a ...

Here's the thrilling conclusion to last week's episode, namely, how to properly reformat — erase — your old Mac's hard disk so its data can never be recovered. First, back up the data on your old Mac ...

Extra disk space is once a gain a commodity thanks to small solid state drives and large iPhoto libraries. If you need to clear off space on your Mac for OS X Lion, more photos or just to have some ...

There are a few less obvious features for managing and manipulating your storage devices in the macOS Disk Utility. In the third part of our deep dive into Disk Utility, here's how to find and use ...