Long story short, a while ago, I bought and returned a hard drive that still had sensitive information on it including social security number, passwords to online accounts, etc. At the time, I thought that I removed all the information on the hard drive because I quick formatted it a few times...
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Is it safe to keep hard drives and flash drives connected all the time (Windows 10), even when shutting down everyday ... ? Or should I use the Eject feature to be safe ... ?
Assume I have a rather new external (Toshiba) 3TB USB harddisk.
During the last days I experienced a data loss because one of the data blocks on the hard disk seems to get damaged.
I run a surface test with one of these hardidsk management tools like Minitool Partition Wizard.
It shows...
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