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Best way to dispose of a computer?
Posted on 8/2/20 at 12:03 am
Posted on 8/2/20 at 12:03 am
Don’t want someone to take out of trash and get my financial records.
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Posted on 8/2/20 at 12:15 am to shoelessjoe
pull hard drive, throw everything else in trash. drill 2-3 holes through hard drive (usually has some spots etched on outside)....then throw in trash
Posted on 8/2/20 at 9:39 am to BabySam
Tannerite and a large, fast rifle round.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 11:04 am to shoelessjoe
If in Baton Rouge: CARC. They actually will break the stuff down and send stuff off for smelting or whatever.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 4:29 pm to shoelessjoe
Posted on 8/3/20 at 10:26 am to LSshoe
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If in Baton Rouge: CARC. They actually will break the stuff down and send stuff off for smelting or whatever.
Also, Best Buy does residential recycling and I think their stuff in BR ends up at CARC.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 8:15 pm to shoelessjoe
Erase the HD with Boot & Nuke then toss in the trash.
Or you can blast it with above mentioned D-BAN and then give it away.
Or you can blast it with above mentioned D-BAN and then give it away.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:06 pm to shoelessjoe
Ship it to Hillary.
Posted on 8/23/20 at 8:33 am to BabySam
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pull hard drive, throw everything else in trash. drill 2-3 holes through hard drive (usually has some spots etched on outside)....then throw in trash
Great advice. I've disposed of two computers, desk and laptop, by removing hd. The cheap Dell laptop had a very brittle disc and I tapped a few times with hammer and it disintegrated into hundreds of tiny glass type shards. The Dell desktop's disc much tougher, but I got two pair pliers, grabbed the disc and bent and twisted and folded several times. I've heard of using a blow torch as a good method.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 3:19 pm to BabySam
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pull hard drive, throw everything else in trash. drill 2-3 holes through hard drive (usually has some spots etched on outside)....then throw in trash
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The preferred IBM method (yep old guy / back in the day) is a sledge hammer and one hit through the HDA. If you don't know what the HDA is - just bash it really good all over. Sat through a high tech class to learn that. They claimed after numerous studies this was the most fool proof and effective procedure.
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