[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[James P. Kinney III]

Forgot the current workable approach: drill a hole in the top or remove
the cover and fill with grit and silicon caulk. Turn the spindle
manually a bit to settle the grit into the platters.

If that's too much work, try pouring in some HCL/H2SO4 (50/50 muratic
and battery acids - USE EXTREME CAUTION!!). The iron oxide is soluble in
HCL and the H2SO4 will dissolve most else.

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:07 -0400, David Corbin 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.
> 
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