2006-08-30 17:34:44 · 14 answers · asked by Sleepyguy 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Take out your hard drives and mutilate them....Then dig a foot deep hole, throw them in and put acid on top of it. Cover with soil and stay away from the area of 25 years. That should cover it.
2006-08-30 17:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by rrrevils 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people I know strongly suggest you remove the hard drive and destroy it. If they really want to get the info from it, they can. Besides, if you are just trashing the computer, it is easy to remove a hard drive and trashing it could be kind of fun. :o)
A charity place near here takes old computers, but they will ask you to remove the hard drive and if you won't do it, they will and they destroy them so nobody can come back and say their personal information was stolen through that hard drive.
2006-08-30 17:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by Chalkbrd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of fancy programs that will overwrite data a bunch of times to prevent it from being recovered.
If you're just going to trash the computer though, I'd suggest hitting the hard drive with an axe a few times.
2006-08-30 17:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by Jack W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, go to http://www.download.com and search for "wipe hard drive".
These types of utilities will write a serious of 0's and 1's randomly across the drive's sectors, to make it more difficult to recover previously stored data. 3 passes is the standard, but a 7-pass wipe is also the same the level of security used by many government agencies.
If you don't plan on reusing the hard drive, however, physically taking it apart and mutilating the platters is the safest bet.
2006-08-30 17:44:34 · answer #4 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are really going to "trash" it then just take the side off the tower and slide out the hard drive. Mangle it and throw it in the trash.
2006-08-30 17:43:48 · answer #5 · answered by kar_summers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trash it? Take a magnet and let it attached to the drive for a night.
2006-08-30 18:30:37 · answer #6 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot from your cd drive, and run fdisk program.
Or when windows installation begins, delete all partitions on your hard disk, and then exit without proceeding further.
2006-08-30 17:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you don't want anyone to be able to access the harddrive destroy it formating it will only wipe visiable information with the proper software anyone can read just about anything that has been ont the harddrive unless all previously used portion of harddrive has been overwritten. hope this helps.
2006-08-30 17:48:02 · answer #8 · answered by jacks5j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reformat your hard drive using your windows disk. Save any files to CD first.
2006-08-30 17:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have been in the military for 18 years doing this,there is only one product i trust,it wipes it 8 times and there is no trace of anything i have done iusing ones and zeros lol
2006-08-30 17:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by WowCrafter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋