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Selling broken laptop, shall I remove hard drive...?

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OH dropped their laptop a few weeks ago and it is bust.

If I take the hard drive out of a laptop will that get rid of any personal info/data etc?
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  • kev_min
    kev_min Posts: 160 Forumite
    in a word

    YES
    At times any combination of my spelling, grammar or punctuation may be incorrect. Please do not pick me up for this as, after all, it is only an internet forum.
  • its a bit drastic when there are free programs to wipe it.
  • Alias_Omega
    Alias_Omega Posts: 7,917 Forumite
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    I would always keep it..

    Hard Drives are personal things..
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    It wont power up properl. The thing got dropped and is now bust.
  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    If you have no way of firing it up to wipe it with any of the myriad of free utilities, keep the hard drive. My missuses notebook died and I had no way of wiping the info on it before I sold it for spares. I sell used ones for a living and I kept the HDD. If I'd been able to wipe it, I'd have left it in. Still got the HDD so it'll get used in something at some point.
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    Thats what I was thinking. Shame really because it's a Sony Viao.

    Screen, keyboard, charger, battery etc are all fine. It's just something had died in it.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    If you're going to take the HD out anyway before you dispose of it, why not take it out and put another one in, and see if you can get the laptop to work?
  • david69_2
    david69_2 Posts: 580 Forumite
    what free programmes are out there to wipe or clean up the hard drive I'm looking to buy a laptop but i want to dispose of my desktop
  • Sunnyday
    Sunnyday Posts: 3,855 Forumite
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    I`ve kept every HDD from every pc i`ve ever owned :D still got them all lol, some are really old and would never get used again, anyone got any good tips for physical destruction?

    SD
    Planning on starting the GC again soon :p
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    googler wrote: »
    If you're going to take the HD out anyway before you dispose of it, why not take it out and put another one in, and see if you can get the laptop to work?


    Not got a spare HD :)
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