How to prepare your old Computer for Safe Disposal?

The United States of America generated approximately 11.7 million tons of e-waste in 2014. Only 1 million tons of electronic waste out of 3.4 million tons of total electronic waste generated in the year 2012 was recycled leaving with a mere 29% rate of recycling in the USA.

The tortoise walk of the e-waste recycling rate in the United States of America calls for the improvement in the strategies that revolve around the recycling and data destruction services of the old electronics and IT Assets. San Jose is doing their fair share of work in banishing the old electronic equipment and IT gadgets from reaching the already brimming landfills of the USA with their safe, secure and compliant electronic recycling San Jose.

As a consumer, you must understand the importance of personal data and the sensitivity of the situation that revolves around the breach and the usurping of the most confidential data without your consent. Thus, it is extremely unlikely and irresponsible of your to just blatantly and out of the blue throw away your old desktop or computer equipment without regards to your personal data and security. Studies suggest that nearly 64% of North Americans face the brutal brunt of a security breach at least once in their lifetime which elevates the chances of an individual falling under the fatal trap of security breach.

Deleting old files and reformatting your old computer does not guarantee the complete wipe of the data from your old computer or desktop.

Hard drives are very complex and technologically advanced creatures, the depths of which can still store the most crucial data that can be effortlessly restored using the advanced data recovery systems landing your personal data in the hands of an unknown individual.

The professionals of San Jose E-waste, in order to recycle electronics San Jose and to help the consumers securely dispose of their old and unwanted computer, have curated various steps that you must abide in order to curb any chance of security malfunctioning.

Let’s start with the points.

Take a Backup of Your Data: The most important step that you must take before, disposing of your old or obsolete computer is to back up all the data by either transferring them to a new computer or a new hard drive.  Invest in a good and branded external hard drive to give refuge to your data in a new place. The storage capacity you can choose depending upon the size of the data that needs to be backed up.

Download a Disk Wiping Software: If you are under the impression that deleting your files from the computer, sending them to the recycle bin and permanently deleting the files from there will remove all the data from your computer, then let us teach you something? Even if you do that, the data will not be removed from the computer hard drive, it will just stamp a marker that the particular files are no longer available and if somebody wants to, he/she can easily recover the data using data recovery program software.

In such cases, it is advised to buy a Disk Wiping Software or a Disk Erasing Utilities for the secure wiping of the data from your computer.

For more information on the proper computer disposal tips and tact, get in touch with the experts of the leading safe, secure and complaint recycling San Jose service providers, San Jose E-waste.