Don't toss that drive yet! Learn how to safely dispose of old hard drives using data wiping tools and physical destruction methods to protect your privacy.

Eventually, everyone replaces computer equipment. No matter how the equipment is disposed of – giving or selling it to another user, recycling parts, or sending it to the electronic junk yard – any ...

Q. I have many old 3.5-inch computer disks. I would like to dispose of them. Do I need to format them first to get rid of the data? I still have an old computer that can handle that task. Someone ...

“I gotta lot of private data on these old disks, I better get rid of them to make sure no one sees what I do on my computer,” the YouTuber says at the start of his video. With labels such as “furry ...

This story has been updated with statements from Microsoft and additional information about how refurbishers obtain restore disks. A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling ...