[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 18:16:31 EDT 2007


I like to strip it - yank the magnets for my fridge, then torch the platters

WMM

On 8/16/07, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:
>
> What do you folks do when a hard drive "dies" (i.e. you cannot get it work
> in
> your PC) and you wish to dispose of it?  I'm not worried about they
> physical
> disposal (I'll save it for electronic recycling) if I can be confident
> that
> the data on won't be readable by someone with advanced tools.  So the
> question is, how do you make sure that the data cannot be read.
>
> Thanks
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