You work for a small city IT department and you are reviewin

You work for a small city IT department, and you are reviewing security procedures for data erasing and decommissioning computer hard drives. Of the following, which is the preferred method of making sure hard drive data cannot be recovered from a retired computer hard drive?

A. Data wiping

B. Hard drive destruction

C. Hard drive recycling

D. Reformatting the disk

Solution

B. The only way to absolutely make sure that data cannot be read from a hard disk is to physically destroy the disk.