Recycling a laptop – Are there any security issues?

There is one inevitable question that comes up when someone is looking to recycle a laptop. Are there any security-issues involved?



The main security-issue being someone accessing any of the personal data stored on your laptop.



There probably are not many people that know how to erase the laptop’s hard-drive. Other people may not be 100% confident that all the data will be completely erased if they attempt to do it themselves.



If your laptop is bought and then sold on by a refurbishment company will the new owner be able to view the personal data you had stored on there? In a word - No.



The refurbishment company will completely erase all your data from the hard-drive. Recycling companies, such as Mirror Go Green, have the appropriate software to ensure this is carried out appropriately.



Mirror Go Green uses Blancco software on every laptop they refurbish.



How does Blancco software manage to erase all the data?



As the name blancco suggests it basically "blanks" all of the data on the computer’s memory.



The memory is stored in a series of different blocks on the hard drive. The software firstly removes the protection on these blocks. This enables all the information to be wiped from each block.

Blank information replaces the contents of the block. This process is repeated replacing blank information with the data stored in each block. This leaves the hard drive as if it was back to its original factory settings.



Any attempt to recover old information becomes impossible. The only thing that would be discovered is the blank information replaced by the blancco software.



This gives anyone recycling a laptop 100% peace of mind.



For more details on recycling a laptop please visit:



www.RecycleLaptopsForCash.com