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 ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

Data erasure software is a must-have for anyone who wants to delete private information from their devices in a safe way. It is a program that deletes all the information on a storage device, making ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Your old solid state drive (SSD) has a lot of files on it that you probably don't want ending up in a ...

My brother has a WD 1TB External Hard Drive. It has some sort of embeeded firmware on it that I cannot seem to wipe....the embedded software has a software *logon* in which you need to assign it a ...

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 ...

I have a hard drive (internal), currently my secondary HDD, that still contains an OS and various other stuff, that I would like to "clean up" so there is a whole bunch of space on it for future use.

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 ...