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Disposing of old disc drive/computer
Can anyone suggest a secure way of disposing of an old disc drive and laptop please?
Obviously I don't want to just put it out with the household rubbish and similarly I don't want anyone to 'retrieve' it LOL
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Obviously I don't want to just put it out with the household rubbish and similarly I don't want anyone to 'retrieve' it LOL
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Disposing of computers reminds me of breaking up an old system. It had those huge freestanding SMD80 and SMD300 disk drives, total system capacity 760Mb (yes, megabytes). I had great pleasure in hurling the disks from a second floor window - they would never spin again ! System RAM was 4mb, and considered enormous at the time. The kernel was a staggeringly efficient 780k. Compared to the huge OS of modern times it was a programming miracle.
Use Darik's Boot and Nuke here: http://dban.sourceforge.net/
This is a bootable disk that erases every hard drive it finds on boot. It does so by writing then deleting every sing bit on the disk several times. This will certainly erase any residual trace of data on a disk.
This is a bootable disk that erases every hard drive it finds on boot. It does so by writing then deleting every sing bit on the disk several times. This will certainly erase any residual trace of data on a disk.
Thank you!
I have the drive from an old lappy and have used a 'caddy' (hope thats the right term) to retrieve photos and files but need to dispose of it now. Will most probably do the bashing it with the hammer!
I have my old lappy that is intact apart from the screen being smashed, and will also smash that up too! Stress relief LOL
I have the drive from an old lappy and have used a 'caddy' (hope thats the right term) to retrieve photos and files but need to dispose of it now. Will most probably do the bashing it with the hammer!
I have my old lappy that is intact apart from the screen being smashed, and will also smash that up too! Stress relief LOL
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