CDs are inexpensive, small and lightweight. This makes them easy to store, carry around and mail. They're also user-friendly. Today, many different kinds of audio-visual data are stored and sold on ...

If you have purchased a new Mac or have upgraded your hard drive on an older Mac, you may find when accessing the option to erase free disk space using Apple's Disk Utility that the controls for doing ...

Disk Diag from Rocky Sand Studio Ltd. is another one-trick* pony utility for Mac OS X. Updated in December, it simply scans your home folder to locate unneeded files, which you can choose to delete.

Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. The above error message prevents users from deleting a particular ...

Horror Story No. 37: The co-worker came into our office with a distraught look on his face. “I thought I had another disc, which I didn’t need, in my disc drive when I typed ERASE . . . ,” he said. As ...

Secure Erase and HP Disk Sanitizer are tools used to remove data from a hard drive or solid-state drive permanently. The deleted information cannot be recovered. Use Secure Erase or HP Disk Sanitizer ...

Deleting a file on an SSD isn’t as straightforward as it looks.

If you’re ready to invest in a new computer, and your thinking about donating your old computer to a charity, local group or school, it’s important to make sure your computer’s hard drive is ...