Business Insider

How to wipe a hard drive and data drives on a PC or Mac computer and reduce the chance of someone accessing your files

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 ...
Small Business Computing

Wipe, Don’t Reformat, Your Old Hard Drives

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 ...
Ars Technica

easiest way to wipe PC hard drive?

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 ...

There's a right way to wipe your Windows PC before getting rid of it - here's how I do it

There's a right way to wipe your Windows PC before getting rid of it - here's how I do it ...
ZDNet

How to securely erase the data off your iPhone or iPad, Android device, Windows PC, hard drives, SSDs, and flash drives

Making sure that your personal information is safely and securely erased from devices that you are no longer using is a good thing. Here's a quick guide to securely wiping hard drives (HDDs), solid ...
komonews

How to 'wipe' the hard drive clean before discarding digital devices

Click the image above to listen to the audio. Sooner or later, you’ll want to sell, donate or recycle the digital devices that keep you connected. Before you do that with any device that has onboard ...
Business Wire

Wipe Mac Hard Drive with T2 Security Chip Using Jetico’s BCWipe

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 ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers

What's the best way to wipe a hard drive and not erase operating system?

Prior to the release of Windows 8 and 10, after you formatted a hard drive, all data on that drive would be lost, including the operating system, programs, personal files and more. To get the machine ...
Business Wire

NIST Hard Drive Wipe Now Automated in Jetico’s BCWipe

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 ...
Popular Science

Digitally wipe your hard drive with this reusable PC tool, now $29.99

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › What happens on your computer stays on your computer … usually. While we’ve been taught ...
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Simply deleting files won’t erase an external drive permanently

The right way to wipe an external drive depends heavily on what is inside the enclosure. A Super User thread on reinstalling Linux from a USB stick spells this out clearly, the best way to wipe a ...
Dark Reading

Onsite Disk Wipe Combats Storage Data Leaks

ATLANTA, November 16, 2009 " When sensitive Lockheed Martin missile data was found on eBay-listed computers earlier this year, companies around the world began to rethink how they retire information ...