How to securely erase your hard drive

zigzag3143

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The siren has sung and you've finally succumbed to her call: You're the proud owner of a shiny new PC; a faster, better SSD; or a bigger, better hard drive. It's time to toss your old equipment in the trash and start playing with your new toys, right? Not so fast. First you need to clean the data off your old drives so you don't become a victim of identify theft. Simply deleting the data off your hard drive doesn't actually delete it; it basically just hides it from immediate view. To truly hide the data on your st
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