Where to get rid of old computer

decbel

Spares or repair on ebay.

But watch the postage.

Personally I always remove the hard drive And that would have to be in the description.

Easy job and I'm fortunate that the tip (recycling centre) is only 2 miles away.

zagubov

If it's an easy-to-use one like a mac I'd give it to a relative who hasn't one. (after wiping off all personal data and warning them not to reply to foreign "finance ministers" or whatever). Load a browser with favourites including this website and any others like it.

Being connected's not just a great boon nowadays, it's getting towards becoming a necessity.

Carrot007

They lied. a single wipe with all zeros is all that is needed to make the recovery of data both cost and time prohibitive,so much so it will never happen. Someone may find a new technique of course. But I doubt it. And with SSD, recovery after wiping is even harder.

unforeseen

Carrot007 wrote: »

They lied. a single wipe with all zeros is all that is needed to make the recovery of data both cost and time prohibitive,so much so it will never happen. Someone may find a new technique of course. But I doubt it. And with SSD, recovery after wiping is even harder.

He couldn't put that though. It would have ruined his advertising spam for he company

Markyboyuk

I know the software the company I used it cost about 3k to purchase as I did ask the question. Not sure you can complete a complete and sufficient clean yourself. Anyway I had mine shredded as I did not want anyone to access the hard drive cleaned or not. Due to my job I am quite sensitive about ID Theft and Data protection possibly more than you average person. I would recommend shredding a drive always.

[Deleted User]

Freecycle it, always folk out there who like to tinker on with old machines will take it.

Also don't believe all the hype about destroying the hard drive into 1000s of pieces either. A complex overwrite of 35 passes will do it. Heck even write over the drive again to doubly make sure if it makes you feel better.

zaax

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

r if you are paranoid cut it up with a "gas axe".

Even cut into pieces data can be retreaved. The only way it to melt it.

[Deleted User]

zaax wrote: »

Even cut into pieces data can be retreaved. The only way it to melt it.

But all your datas will float to the top if you melt it. :rotfl:

Markyboyuk

The only free cycling you should be doing is down a hill on your bike on the way to a registered destruction plant. Don't just give it away to some joe blogs who could extract your personal details. In the first 6 months of 2017 there were 89,000 cases of identity theft recorded. Could be you if you freecycle. Its on the rise. :eek:

[Deleted User]

I bought a second hand hard drive from CeX just before Christmas, ran Recuva, and within minutes I had restored all the data from the drive. Luckily it was just someone's music collection and no sensitive personal info or documents.

If you really must sell on or give away a hard drive, make sure you properly format it with DBAN or similar. The quick format option in Windows will simply not do.