Secure Erase and HP Disk Sanitizer are tools used to remove data from a hard drive or solid-state drive permanently. The deleted information cannot be recovered. Use Secure Erase or HP Disk Sanitizer ...

It’s a well-known fact that any confidential data can be erased from the hard-drive using loads of software specifically built for that. But what about the data stored on a CD or a DVD? Throwing them ...

In a recent study, a research team purchased roughly 100 hard disks off eBay and found half of them to contain sensitive information, including insurance records, biographical information about ...

Windows 7 can erase rewritable CDs or DVDs without the use of a third party program. In this short guide, we will show you how to do this. To erase a rewritable CD or DVD Insert the CD or DVD in the ...

Back in August of last year, I wrote about QuickErase, a utility that makes it easy to erase rewriteable discs. (As their names imply, rewriteable discs—a.k.a., CD-RW and DVD-RW discs—can be reused, ...

Horror Story No. 37: The co-worker came into our office with a distraught look on his face. “I thought I had another disc, which I didn’t need, in my disc drive when I typed ERASE . . . ,” he said. As ...

You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean ...