Safe Disposal of dead Laptop... advice please.

HereAgain_2

kippygolf wrote: »

If I knew what where the RAM was, I might be able to re-seat it...
Sadly, I'm a dinosaur where the innards of a pc is concerned! :eek:

The original Hard Drive is now in bits, and probably not going to splash out on a new one without knowing if there are other issues.

Thanks so much for your help, and all other responders.

It's ok, you don't need it right now. What is the brand name and model number of the laptop?

As for smashing up the hard drive....it would cost you £3 for an external casing. You slot the hard drive in and screw it together. Voila! You have a spare external hard drive. No need to smash things up stupidly.

mttylad

Stick it on your local Freegle group, describe the model and the fault well.

Someone will take it off your hands.

macman

closed wrote: »

If power is getting to the board, take the bezel off, and possibly keyboard and top cover and have a nosey around for damage.

I think that the main 'damage' was that the OP self-inflicted with an 'eavy 'ammer.
Why destroy a perfectly good drive which can easily be wiped for nothing?

Ectophile

To answer the question that was actually asked: If you've destroyed the hard disk, then there's no more personal information stored in the computer.

There will be a small amount of battery-backed up memory used to store system settings, but noting that you need to worry about.

HereAgain_2

Ectophile wrote: »

To answer the question that was actually asked: If you've destroyed the hard disk, then there's no more personal information stored in the computer.

There will be a small amount of battery-backed up memory used to store system settings, but noting that you need to worry about.

Already answered in post #2.