Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Question : I need to dispose of my old computer but I’m told that I need to have all of my data removed. We’ve deleted what we can ...

After reading Remove Sensitive Data Before You Sell an Old PC , Joel Edillon wants to know if it’s a good idea to physically destroy a hard drive instead of wiping it with special software. I wouldn’t ...

I had a conversation with a coworker this week about an interesting situation with her elderly father's old computer. His computer ran Windows 7, and while it no longer works, when it did work her ...

Q In a recent column, you wrote about cleaning off a hard drive with an "erase" program before getting rid of the computer. But I've been told that none of those programs really cleans up the hard ...