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

You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. Jim Rossman / TNS I ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Technically, you should assume that data is never truly removed from a hard drive. That's because, for the most part, when you delete a file ...

Hard drive on MacBook Pro failed hard. Won't boot. Any suggestions about how to get any data that is still good off the drive on to the new one? (Son has semester of homework) If the drive at least ...