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How to wipe desktop hard drive before disposal
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First reply was the best. A hammer or a drill. Using specialist software if you're not a specialist doesn't guarantee results.Pants0
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First reply was the best. A hammer or a drill. Using specialist software if you're not a specialist doesn't guarantee results.
Blancco takes about 2 minutes to get running, plug in HD into the machine, run the software and click wipe and leave it
That said, agree just hitting with a hammer is easierSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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If you want to give it away, you can use one of the programs already mentioned here.
If you want to keep it, I would put it in a USB caddy and use for external storage.0 -
The last time I tried to dispose of a hard drive, it was a beggar to get out and then the darn thing seemed imperious to a hammer. But I read somewhere that they didn't like coke so I left it outside steeping in coke all summer
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^^ Waste of good drugs :rotfl:0
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The last time I tried to dispose of a hard drive, it was a beggar to get out and then the darn thing seemed imperious to a hammer. But I read somewhere that they didn't like coke so I left it outside steeping in coke all summer
It's not the coke itself that does it, you'd get a similar reaction to anything that's in the same composite make up. Apparently stomach acid is more acidic than coke so on that basis you could just vomit on the platters, though of course this may be more by luck than anything else and I dare say you will have more important priorities than taking a hard drive apart when you're just about to be sick.
You could always drive a drill through the drive which will usually be enough to shatter not only the platters but also pretty much everything else. Though a hammer is always much more fun as you thump the living crap out of it
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If it's a perfectly good working drive, why are you all so keen to destroy it?0
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If it's a perfectly good working drive, why are you all so keen to destroy it?
It's an XP machine, chances are it's IDE and if he has a new machine it'll probably be SATA only so always a pain to get them up and running again. If it's a decent size I guess you could run it in a caddy as a backup drive but HD are cheap enough these days - a 1 TB SATA III is £38 so why keep an old small drive around? Smacking it with a hammer until platters are gone takes you 20 secondsSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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It's an XP machine, chances are it's IDE and if he has a new machine it'll probably be SATA only so always a pain to get them up and running again. If it's a decent size I guess you could run it in a caddy as a backup drive but HD are cheap enough these days - a 1 TB SATA III is £38 so why keep an old small drive around? Smacking it with a hammer until platters are gone takes you 20 seconds
Exactly what I was going to say, but with added technical reasons for getting out the big hammer
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