If you have an old hard drive from a PC or Mac, there is a good chance you can recover the files and data on the drive. You just need to get a device that connect your drive to a new computer. This is ...

You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. Jim Rossman / TNS I ...

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