What if I never store data on my harddrive, but store the data on a flashdrive, can the data be retrieved from my harddrive? I ask for security reasons. My theory is that if I never store data on my harddrive and my computer gets stolen the thief cannot access my data. True of false?

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I have a 10 year old IBM Thinkpad 1400 series with a celeron 733Mhz processor with about 96MB of Ram. I know its really old but I’ve got software programs (specific to my unique profession) on it. The software alone runs about ,000+ and cannot be transferred to another computer because of software security features, thus I must keep this computer just for those programs.

How much would it approx. run for a computer store/person to replace the harddrive and transfer over the data?

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I heard that in some countries airport security checks the content of your hard drives!? I have a lot of work related data on my laptop which I do not want to be copied by anyone when I go to Australia next month. Encryption of approx. 10 gb would take quite long I’d guess

So is there a chance they are gonna search my harddrive?

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I do NOT want to delete files. I spend a lot of time browsing and surfing that I want to keep those files. I have heard of file encryption and stuff like that, but is that what I should be doing? I want to hide my files on my harddrive and have them secured somewhere.

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