You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.
MUO on MSN

This is what happens to a file when you delete it from your SSD

What this means is that the deleted file is not fully gone and can still be recovered. It's only when the data is overwritten ...
USA Today

Tech security tip: How to delete private data for good

Moving a file to the trash on your PC or Mac gets rid of it for good, right? Not so fast. These files can be seen by others later, and they could be slowing down your machine. Tap or click for my ...
Wired

How to delete files permanently

This article was taken from the October 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...
SlashGear

What Happens When You Delete A File On Windows? (And Can You Recover It?)

There are plenty of things that you can do to boost your Windows computer's performance. You can enable fast startup, reduce the number of background-running ...
Business Insider

How to delete a notebook in OneNote on your computer and remove old or unwanted files

You can easily delete a notebook in OneNote when you no longer need it. If you might want the information in the notebook again in the future, you can remove it from OneNote without permanently ...