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You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear
There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.
When an SSD, hard drive, or old notebook is sold, people usually delete their personal files beforehand. However, many users do not realize that the hard drive often still contains information that is ...
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Your deleted files haunt old hard drives, here's how to purge them
Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...
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Simply deleting files won’t erase an external drive permanently
On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB ...
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