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That mantra isn’t what you normally want to hear about your hard drive. But what about your old hard drive? Do you want your old tax return or that photo of you mooning the opposing football team available for the world to see? Most of us blithely assume that deleting files actually deletes them. Wrong! Deleting files merely drops the name from the index and the info is there until it is overwritten. Oh, then if I use a software package designed to overwrite all my files then my data is truly erased. Maybe! Why maybe? Commercial software such as Stellar Wipe, Master Shredder, Crisystec Sentry.30, DiskDeleter, Secure Folders XP or PowerWiper may successfully delete your data. Then other commercially available software such as NTFS Formatted Partition Data Recovery, Deleted Windows Partition Data Restore or R-Studio Data Recovery Software may be able to recover it. It seems like for every tool there is a counter tool. I have used Drive Savers Data Recovery services on hard drives I was ...

Space is definitely not infinite in my computer. If nature abhors a vacuum, it also seems to abhor empty hard drives. Seems like hard drives fill up just like empty closets acquire hangers. There are many, many solutions to this problem. An obvious solution is to delete some of the crap on your hard drive. As elegant as that sounds, you would be amazed at how many folks brought their non-functioning computers in for service after they were just deleting some unnecessary files. Just a tip, if you aren’t familiar with the name of the file doesn’t mean your computer doesn’t need it. Linksys has a pretty cool tool that can help the space crisis. It is the NAS200 network attached storage drive. It is an enclosure which will hold two SATA hard drives with two USB 2.0 ports for adding two more drive. It connects via Ethernet so you can hang it off your router and have it accessible to any of the computers on your net. Those of you without a network, it will be accessible through your compute...