I'm wanting to bin an old computer Anyone know where I can take my computer and have all the drives wiped etc? Don't want to throw it away when there's going to be loads of data stored in it.
Re: I'm wanting to bin an old computer destroy it with a hammer or drop it from a great height, then smash the drives to smitherines, then put it in the bin
Re: I'm wanting to bin an old computer Take the hard drive out then bin the rest as you would any other waste. How sensitive is the data on the disk?
Re: Re: I'm wanting to bin an old computer that wouldnt make much difference if someone really wanted to get the data off there
Re: Re: Re: I'm wanting to bin an old computer they would really really really have to want to get the data off a drive that had been smashed to smitherines like. theyd have to wish it off i think, as if by magic
Use something like Webroot disk eraser and run it on Guttman setting (overwrites the data 35 times) and then smash the disk. Aint gona get anything back after that without serious expense.
all you need is a low level format utility. find the manufacturer of your hard disk and they'll have one. a low level format resets every single bit back to zero. a proper format. if u need one, i've got low level format utilities for fujitsu, maxtor, western digital and Seagate drives
thats only 1 pass though isnt it? filling the drive with zero bits ...im sure that this does not mean nothing can be recovered under any circumstances? Guttman is the better idea IMHO.
a standard format is retrievable but not a low level format - there's nothing to recover - the files aren't there as all the bits have been reset to zero inc the file allocation tables
if its getting binned why not just smash it up with a hammer? its funner and more effective also its less time consuming
The longer I read through this thread the more it smacked of a Gary Glitter type wanting to cover his tracks
