Inaccessible backups, and a dead laptop

How can you repair what you can’t get at? Today’s column covers two problems caused by very different access issues.

In one case, a subscriber is locked out of her old, obsolete backup files; she can neither access nor delete them and thus cannot recover the huge chunk of disk space they occupy.

In another, a different subscriber needs to data-wipe (“sanitize”) the hard drive of a fatally damaged laptop. But how can he wipe the drive when the laptop won’t even turn on?

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.04.0 (2022-01-24).

Also In this issue:

ON SECURITY: Twenty years of trustworthy computing

PUBLIC DEFENDER: ’Fake’ HDMI 2.1: The standard that isn’t

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT: Info-Base — Map your brain

MICROSOFT NEWS: $68.7 billion? Peanuts.

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