NAID (National Association for Information Destruction) certified mobile destruction of computer hard drives and nonpaper media such as backup tapes, thumb drives and optical media; adherence with ...

Free software to wipe hard drives exist, but the sure way to get rid of data is total destruction.

How to Destroy a Computer: Data-Wiping Program Your first option for deleting data from your hard drive is using a data-wiping program. Do this if you want to keep the drive usable but data erased.

Grab a power drill and make a few holes straight through the drive. This messes with the internal platters, making data recovery impossible. Place the drive in a bag (to avoid flying bits of metal) ...

Once you have the drive out, you’ll need a dock to connect a bare drive to your computer via USB. You can buy a dock online for around $25.

The Rev. Barry Stechschulte resigned in July after admitting he ordered the destruction of another priest's computer hard drive containing pornography.

Before you get rid of that old computer, you need to wipe it completely of all your data. And don’t forget to recycle it afterward.

Priest authorized destruction of hard drive His decision to leave St. Susanna follows several weeks of turmoil over Stechschulte's admission that he authorized the destruction of a computer hard ...

In other words, a worrying minority of users will get rid of hard drives laden with files while some will go through the process of actually deleting them.

A former FBI agent who wiped the hard drive of his government-issued computer twice and put a high-profile public corruption case at risk pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, the same day he ...