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Getting rid of your Windows PC? Remember to wipe the drive first

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

Corrupt USB drive? Try these 3 fixes before you wipe it

So you’re dealing with a corrupt USB flash drive. You’ve lost your files; you can’t access them, or when you plug the drive ...
Network World

IronKey adds remote wipe feature for USB drives

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that ...
Ars Technica

Using terminal to erase external SSD hard drive

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...