Don't toss that drive yet! Learn how to safely dispose of old hard drives using data wiping tools and physical destruction methods to protect your privacy.

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never, ever touch -- except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, ...

“I gotta lot of private data on these old disks, I better get rid of them to make sure no one sees what I do on my computer,” the YouTuber says at the start of his video. With labels such as “furry ...

This story has been updated with statements from Microsoft and additional information about how refurbishers obtain restore disks. A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling ...