How to Delete Items from a Hard Drive

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Tip 1 - How to securely wipe sensitive files--or your entire hard drive

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Joan Falcetta | permalink

Rommel asked the Utilities forum for advice on cleaning files off a hard drive so that they can never be restored

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039796/how-to-securely-wipe-sensitive-files-or-your-entire-hard-drive.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - How Do I Permanently Delete Files From My Hard Disk?

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Hamid Ragheb | permalink

Follow these simple instructions to completely remove files from your drive.

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/209418/how_do_i_permanently_delete_files_from_my_hard_disk.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Permanently Remove Files from Your Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Aurelie Viriot | permalink

Simply putting files in the trash and emptying it leaves them on your hard drive in a form that is fairly easy to recover. This solution is free, and requires only a bit of time and access to an internet source. Follow some simple steps...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Remove-Files-from-Your-Hard-Drive ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to Delete Something Permanently From Your Computer

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by nilay altin | permalink

Dragging a file to the trash bin isn't enough to destroy your most sensitive information. Here are easy and effective ways to delete something permanently.
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For further reading: http://mashable.com/2014/07/14/delete-files-permanently/ ^[4]

Tip 5 - I Can't Delete Any Files off my External Hard Drive!

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by terra 03 | permalink

Basically I just got myself the latest MacBook as an upgrade from an old laptop. With my old laptop I had no problems what so ever when using my...

For further reading: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-cant-delete-any-files-off-my-external-hard-drive.971504/ ^[5]

Tip 6 - 5 Tools To Permanently Delete Sensitive Data From Your Hard Drive [Windows]

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jordan Guagliumi | permalink

In a recent article I explained why it is impossible to recover data from a hard drive after overwriting it. In that post I mentioned that simply deleting files or formatting your hard drive typically does not remove or overwrite files at all, meaning they can still be recovered. If this information made you a…

For further reading: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tools-permanently-delete-sensitive-data-hard-drive-windows/ ^[6]