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re: How to dispose of a computer
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:08 pm to JustGetItRight
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:08 pm to JustGetItRight
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Um, no. Just no. Recovered with no effort at all.
How does one recover a reformatted hard drive?
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Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:09 pm to MRTigerFan
there are free applications that can do this also, but you just proved my point
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:09 pm to Jack Daniel
Shotgun. Boxes of shells.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:10 pm to lsu480
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Use a magnet to erase the drive and that toss it in the trash
not quite that easy. a real degaussing magnet that will truly fubar a drive is about the size on an mri machine
just wipe it . lots of free utilities that arent too hard to operate.
This post was edited on 1/21/14 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:13 pm to Jack Daniel
just take the hard drive out like everyone said
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:15 pm to StickyFingaz
I'll take the hard drive out........ Then shoot it
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:43 pm to Jack Daniel
In DC area, you can bring the PC to your local Best Buy and they will recycle the component parts. Agree with taking the HD out of the PC before dropping off. Destroy by whatever means provides the greatest joy.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:45 pm to MrPackSix
Posted on 1/21/14 at 4:55 pm to Jack Daniel
I've never thrown away a hard drive. Even my old broken ones. Mostly because I hold out hope of being able to recover data from them but also for security.
The only true 100% way to destroy a hard drive is to physically take it apart and with a grinder, sand down each side of every disk.
Other ways of destroying them leave the possibility of recoverable sectors.
The only true 100% way to destroy a hard drive is to physically take it apart and with a grinder, sand down each side of every disk.
Other ways of destroying them leave the possibility of recoverable sectors.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:00 pm to JustGetItRight
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Google 'recover formatted drive' gives you all you ever needed to know. No computer forensics or advanced knowledge required at all.
That still wouldn't help 99% of the population. They'd need to know how to plug in the drive, for starters.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:02 pm to Jack Daniel
anybody else read the title the first time as how to dispose of a coworker?
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:05 pm to Jack Daniel
I just wanted to post because of your avi 
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:22 pm to Jack Daniel
I have thrown them off of a parking garage. It is pretty cool. Have also done the same with a television
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:27 pm to Camp Randall
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Pull the hard drive out. Also they have a recycling day a few times a year. Bring it to them.
You can fine numerous free programs on the Internet to "wipe" the drive. You do not simply want to erase, you went the data deleted and then written over.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:30 pm to Jack Daniel
Keep the hard drive and trash everything else.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:42 pm to Jack Daniel
Contact guido merkins. He has 4 gallons of old gasoline he can give you for free.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 6:04 pm to Jack Daniel
Posted on 1/21/14 at 6:37 pm to MRTigerFan
Posted on 1/21/14 at 6:54 pm to xLxSxUxFxAxNx
Posted on 1/22/14 at 3:59 pm to BulldogXero
I pulled the hard drive and memory and used it for target practice for my .357 magnum. Pretty fun. Threw the rest away.
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