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 Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...
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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 ...