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Lenovo features launched software program to comprehensively delete information about PC tough drives, right after surveys revealed any widespread failure in order to remove sensitive information coming from hard drives upon PCs slated for disposal.

With your now-in-force WEEE directive, PC disposal as well as recycling will most likely be more organized. Any Lenovo-sponsored survey points too as significantly as thirty percent of discarded PCs may contain sensitive data. An earlier BT-sponsored record reached significantly the same conclusion.

Reports involving sensitive data being left about outdated PCs are generally set to be able to persist as companies continue to expose themselves to the possible risks of data getting to the incorrect hands. Many companies erroneously think that formatting any tough disk removes along with destroys its data. Within fact this data, which is often extremely confidential, may nevertheless be retrieved coming from these drives. Systematically writing meaningless bit patterns in order to each disk block can end up being a more successful way to really remove such data.

Lenovo materials a software item to do this. Referred For You To As Secure data Disposal, simply by using it customers can easily be confident that all data will possibly be removed from the hard disk before it's redeployed or disposed. Lenovo is actually encouraging all its consumers to utilize the instrument in order to minimize their own exposure in order to coverage associated with sensitive data.

Secure data Disposal can be readily accessible for download free involving charge about just about all Lenovo notebooks and also desktop PCs as well as can simply always be installed simply by customers as well as network managers.

Chris Wells, Lenovo's VP for U.K. along with Ireland, said: "It is vital regarding organizations to feel about secure data disposal when refreshing end-of-life computers to become able for you to avoid becoming susceptible for you to potentially immeasurable company risk."