laptop disposal - disk erasure

G_M

Trying to clean my laptop before disposal. Googling I found Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) was recommended,but had to be downloaded onto a floppy disk.

My floppies are 1.4MB high density - and weren't large enough.

Any other suggestions? (apart from the hammer option which I might resort to).

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disposal or sale?

keep it.? - if it's working, £4 for a usb hard disk caddy gives you a backup device

hammer/drill is much faster than dban (which can be written to cd if you wish)

beware flying glass if you smash it so much the cover comes off.

basill

If you don`t end up keeping the drive you could try to create a bootable USB drive and run DBAN from there?

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flexrider

download ocdb, its a tool you can use one you stick the hard drive out but d/l it before you do you can run it from the lappy then choose the nuke drive settings (the tools you mentions are included free with that program)

warning before nuking all the drive make sure you got everything off it you want to keep as it will clear the whople hard drive back to factory settings like a new Hdd.

best tool i ever used for restoring/deleting/replacing O/s which have errors and some more things all in one free program.

hope that helps
flex

kickemillicky

Thanks for that.Successfully got ourselves back to where we started. Wifi on Laptop is working a charm... just no internet access.Will check out DNS settings as suggested tomorrow

G_M

Thanks for the replies ... ecept kickemillicky's which makes no sense to me at all!!

DCFC79

G_M wrote: »

Thanks for the replies ... ecept kickemillicky's which makes no sense to me at all!!

doesn't to me either,

Dave_C_2

Have a look at this thread As I said in my post, It depends on how paranoid you are...

Dave

GunJack

bear in mind if you want to sell the lappy, it will fetch more if it's got the operating system installed and working. By all means delete all your personal data, then use CCleaner's free space wiper tool to do what it says on the tin.

If you DBAN it, you wipe the lot.....so unless you then want to re-install and do all the updates.....