ok i will be letting 1 of the old computers resale off the computer is a AMD Athlon 64 Processor with . 1024mbr ,that is 1gb ram i dont mind letting this go for , resale , is is not that old and the cpu fan & motherboard is working fine .it has a ,dvd, dvd(rw) & a 108 mbps ethernet card
+ a , Ati All-in-wonder X1900 256mb Gddr3
i dont need this any more i have a new pc , this computer will have a hard drive in it but the hard drive in it . but the hard drive will not work . coz i have clean off the history from it ,, now if i took the hard drive out to clean the history like this way , frist take a hammer to it crack the hammer down now less then 100 times then when that is done , use a fire gun in it the fire gun and burn then hard drive till its black all over ,then when that is done take it to a ,safe place where no one is about ,put the hard drive down in the land , and pay the usa army to send to send on mission a ,stealth bomber , too take full speed at it and nuke clean
2006-09-15 08:12:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
if a hammer/ fire gun & a nuke from a stealth bomber was used on the hard drive can someone use file recovery software to recover the hard drive?
2006-09-15 08:17:22 · update #1
LOL, what are you hiding?
you got me curious...
now i gotta stalk you and get hold of that old hard drive...
LOL
how much$ for your old one?
i am in the same process, getting a new 200GB 2.7Hz
my old 80GB, 1.3Hz is going to my daughter...
so i just delete any FILES that she should not see,
and she can have whatever music etc or delete it herself
you mention delete history, but you didn't mention delete files, programs, etc
2006-09-16 04:38:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Theres a program called KILLDISK. Formats the hard drive in binary 0's or 1's and cannot be retrieved by any average user with retrival programs. The only way at having a chance of retrieving data after its killdisked is with a top knotch multi thousand dollar retrieval system. So your common user wont be able to get any info from it so its completely safe.
2006-09-15 17:47:30 · answer #2 · answered by nerdboy 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I replaced my computer I reformated the old machines hard drive using the manufacturer's disk to restore it to manufacturers specs. Do that. Then it is still usable, but reformatting wipes off old information and protects your privacy.
2006-09-15 08:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by stick man 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Format the hard drive.
2006-09-15 08:13:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋