Originally Posted by
FLimits
Otherwise, they can transfer their data from their old computer to DropBox, Google Drive, or SkyDrive, and either keep it there so it's always easy to access or copy it over to their new machine. If they're too old-school or nervous to do that, then tell them to get one of those little USB flash drives (a.k.a. "stick" or "thumb drive") with enough capacity to hold their old data, and copy everything onto that.
Some good answers there FL, but for someone worried about their data being retrieved, I wouldn't recommend Google, or Dropbox, or any other online storage. What so many can't seem to comprehend is that for online privacy, there is only one thing to understand, there is none ; ) This is also true for data on a computer that is even remotely connected to the internet at all. It's convenient to do online bank account checks and such, but it's also open to discovery there
I'm for the USB drive anymore. I've often told people to pick one up at wmart and copy it there. Thinking I'll do this exclusively in the future, although there are actually some who'd find that difficult
Originally Posted by
FLimits
AuburnEwaste: So I get the impression that different government agencies must have different standards for hard-drive data destruction.
NASA had yet another standard for HDD data, the shredder. It was a rare thing to get a HDD in a NASA machine
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