Feb 20, 2020 · Backup All of Your Personal Data. studiogstock / Getty Images. Before you buy that shiny new computer and ditch your old one, make sure you get all of your personal data off of the old one first. Use an external hard drive, a cloud backup like Dropbox or Google Drive, or writable DVDs to make a copy of your data.
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Safe Computer Disposal Computers that you no longer need should be disposed of with great care. The data on your computer can easily be accessed whether you sell, scrap, give away or donate it, and even ‘deleted’ data can be retrieved with relative ease by criminals.