Many computers are being thrown by the wayside year by year. Whether your Windows laptop crashed or you bought a 
new Mac, be aware that your files may still be accessible on your dead computer. Even if your motherboard or screen went bad, your files are very well alive and kicking inside your hard drive. Further, just deleting your files and emptying them from your recycle bin is not good enough. Nor is formatting your hard drive. It is still possible to recover files from both scenarios.
It is a good rule of thumb to wipe your hard drive to ensure they don’t wind up in the wrong hands. If there is confidential or bank info on your hard drive, then you might looking at identify theft or hacker issues.
Here’s how to wipe your old hard drive files:
- Download Secure Delete.
- Install and run Secure Delete to remove all of your files.
That’s it. This software, like all other Secure Delete software applications, will delete the contents and memory space of your hard drive hundreds of times. This way, data recovery experts will not be able to recover and files from it. For $20, this investment is well worth guarding against data theft.
