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Removing private data from your PC permanently

Often people ask us why anyone would ever need a program to wipe data from hard drive storage permanently. Consider that your hard drive has thousands of records stored on it that even if you have deleted them, the core data of those files exists on your hard drive and can be easily reconstructed by anyone with a quality data recovery software program. This means that should you sell or donate your computer upon purchasing another model, the recipient of the computer could easily open and read all of your records.

Even if you’re not selling your computer, deleted files can be read and copied by anyone with access to your PC. The best solution to this problem is to use the Remo data eraser. This innovative software program will overwrite the existing file area on your hard drive of the information you would like to permanently erase. The overwriting process itself is done many times in a series of random patterns. This creates a situation where it is humanly and mathematically impossible for anyone to ever reconstruct and read your private data.