Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

My faithful standby, Darik's Boot & Nuke, apparently doesn't support SATA disks; apparently that little gem was yanked to make the for-pay version actually worth buying. Even stepping back to an old ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prosoft Engineering, Inc. launches MediaTools Wipe – A professional computer wiping tool designed for complete and secure data deletion. This is the first product ...

I use http://www.heidi.ie/node/6 for free space wipe within windows. If not running within windows I'd use a linux live cd, although I don't think this meets your gpl ...

In brief: Windows users looking to run Microsoft's Intune disk wipe function might want to reconsider. Microsoft MVP Rudy Ooms recently discovered that performing a remote or local wipe on Windows 10 ...