Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

Deleting hard drive without recovery?

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Sam asked: I recently sold my computer through an auction site. Before it was sold I formatted the drives, then ran clean disk security (a hard drive deleter) many times (over 35 passes I believe). I then tested it to see if I could recover any files with programs I ...

How do I securely delete my entire hard drive with no possibility of recovery?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

asked: I am donating my old computers, and I want to erase EVERY TRACE of personal information, and all data, from my computers, with no possibility of recovery by those data recovery programs. I have been trying to find a good program to do this, but it seems like ...