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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.
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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 ...
The Windows tool Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with a zero, which is considered a secure deletion method. This applies at least to classic hard drives, i.e. HDDs with magnetic discs.
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