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 and data drives through your Windows 10 Settings, the DBAN utility, and the Disk Utility manager in ...

How to wipe a computer if you want to sell it or give it a fresh start

Whether you want to sell your Windows PC, Mac, or Chromebook or give it a fresh start, you need to wipe it first. Here's how.
it.tmcnet

Ways to Securely Erase a Hard Drive

Do you ever have to dispose of old computers or return leased PCs at your company? If so, then one of your No. 1 priorities should always be to securely wipe each hard drive to make sure none of your ...
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 ...
Texarkana Gazette

Deleting files isn't enough - here's how to properly erase hard drives

Since the Help Desk launched last year, we've received loads of requests for the best ways to preserve different kinds of data in our lives: think voice mails, conversations and even cherished home ...
Small Business Computing

How to Completely Erase a Hard Disk Drive

If you’re ready to invest in a new computer, and your thinking about donating your old computer to a charity, local group or school, it’s important to make sure your computer’s hard drive is ...
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 ...
CRN

Wipe Out: Ensconce Sweeps Data Off Hard Drives

Why You Should Care: Almost every company eventually has to dispose of older hard drives, and they need a way to ensure (and prove) that the data on those drives was securely deleted. The Lowdown: ...
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 ...
CRN

Researchers Find Technique To Quickly Erase Hard Drives

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), working with L-3 Communications Corp. (New York), said they have developed a technique for quickly erasing hard-disk drives. The team ...
EDN

Technique takes flight to quickly erase hard drives

PORTLAND, Ore. — In 2001, an American spy plane collided in the air with a Chinese fighter and was forced to land on Chinese island. Since then, researchers have been looking for a way to quickly ...
Ars Technica

Using terminal to erase external SSD hard drive

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...