Wiping your disk drive clean

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 30, 2008 9:01 AM EDT
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Everybody who owns a computer will someday need to dispose of a disk drive. Before you do, it is a good idea to cleanse the drive, so no one can read your sensitive information. Deleting files and reformatting is not sufficient; determined effort can still reveal data from a drive even after it appears to be gone. To do a more thorough job, I suggest using wipe.

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"the easiest way" ... not quite techiem2 26 1,917 Jun 3, 2008 7:10 PM

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