Submitted by FERG on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 14:39
Are you planning to recycle, donate, gift, or sell your computer? Before you do this, you should think about the data on your hard drive. There is lots of personal information on your drive that could be used in a harmful way if it were to fall into the wrong hands.
A colleague of mine has purchased numerous hard drives off of eBay and found data on them when he installed them. There are man people who purchase used hard drives with the express purpose of gathering data from them. So what is one to do?
You have a few options.