Last night, while playing with Find My iPhone, I erased my wife's iPhone. That's right.
I erased my wife's iPhone. Apparently, it wasn't backing up to iCloud. Unless I have a good backup on her laptop via iTunes, I am screwed, right?
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posted by 4ster
on Sep 27, 2012 -
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How does one erase an internal hard drive when said drive is no longer hooked up to a computer and you don't have access to another computer? Then what's the best way to dispose of the drives?
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Sep 22, 2012 -
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How can I securely delete files on my Android phone? I want to be sure that deleted files can
not be recovered, i.e., photos, email, email attachments, evernote notes, etc.
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posted by theora55
on Jun 7, 2012 -
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I need to use my iPhone 4 for an app demo tomorrow afternoon, and I'd like to wipe all of my personal data for the demo and then restore it afterward.
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posted by joshuaconner
on Apr 26, 2012 -
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I'm trying to prep a PC for donation/craigslist by wiping the drive. DBAN won't boot from the CD drive, and neither will KillDisk.
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posted by lvanshima
on Nov 13, 2011 -
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I'm donating a computer to a friend-of-a-relative. Can data be recovered from the RAM or any other part of the computer?
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 31, 2010 -
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Looking for a way to wipe (for disposal) old hard drives without swapping them into my desktop.
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posted by ApathyGirl
on Aug 22, 2010 -
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A friend who works for a university is moving on and has to return his computer. He's thinking of using DBAN to wipe it clean but is wondering if he'll be making more work for the computer techs (and raising their suspicions about what he was using it for) by forcing them to reinstall the OS. How likely is it that the computer techs would reinstall the OS anyway before handing the computer to someone else? Is that the norm in this situation?
posted by mediareport
on Jul 2, 2010 -
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I need to send my computer back to its manufacturer, as it's broken, and they've sent me a replacement. I would like to erase everything from the hard drive. Can you recommend some software to do this? It's a Windows 7 laptop with a single (though partitioned) hard drive.
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posted by bluefly
on Jun 29, 2010 -
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Is there an app for Windows that you know of for hunting down and eradicating multiple copies of the same files?
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posted by Unhyper
on Dec 13, 2009 -
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What is the best free way to securely wipe the hard drive of a PC (XP, I think) before re-selling it? Free means no purchase of software or hardware, if at all possible. If it helps, there are two laptops that need to be wiped, so one could wipe the other if there's some nifty way to do that. Any ideas would be much-appreciated.
posted by Dasein
on Sep 26, 2009 -
8 answers
Tomorrow I'll list my ACER Aspire 3680 for sale on eBay. I want to be as sure as I can that there the lucky buyer has as little chance as possible of seeing passwords/pics/personal info. Normally, I would just format and do a clean install of XP. But I've moved house and my install disk is one of 19 packing cases stored 2500km away, so that option is out. I've listed what I've already done after the jump, but I'm hoping a more tech-savvy mefite might spot a hole in my erasure efforts.
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posted by t0astie
on May 6, 2009 -
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I have an external hard drive that I'm sending back to the manufacturer due to an issue. I already have all of the data off of it, but (thankfully), a few days after I got the data, the thing is dead. The question: how do I erase all of the data off of it even if I can't boot it up?
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posted by SNWidget
on Apr 6, 2009 -
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Looking for suggestions for a good vendor for a large dry erase board in the US.
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posted by 4ster
on Aug 10, 2008 -
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What's the best way to erase my hard drive for resale if I don't have original OS reinstall CDs to work with?
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posted by rhoticity
on Feb 29, 2008 -
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How to wipe a dead hard drive? After backing up my data to a recently purchased external drive, it promptly failed (and produced a horrible, burning electronics odor). As I'm still within the 14 day return policy, I shouldn't have any trouble returning it. However: I want to wipe all of my personal data from the drive first. How to do that with a drive that won't mount?
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posted by aladfar
on Oct 29, 2007 -
16 answers
How do I clean the data off these old hard drives without using software or a mallet?
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posted by jamaro
on Aug 10, 2007 -
14 answers
Where can I find dry-erase / whiteboard paint to put on my wall? Something like chalkboard paint.
posted by GernBlandston
on Sep 9, 2005 -
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I am returning a laptop to my employer that I have used exclusively for the last two years. I have used it as a personal machine and need to erase all evidence of my (non-work) use. I have backed up everything that needs to transfer so a clean wipe and re-install would be ok.
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 9, 2005 -
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Mac OSX Safari --Is there a script/action that I can enable to automatically erase my cache and history files at a certain time each day? While being fairly Mac savvy, I have no experience with writing scripts. I'm really looking for an easy solution, perhaps a piece of freeware?
posted by sharksandwich
on Mar 26, 2004 -
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