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| Ziff Posts: 1175/1800 |
Soak it in kerosene for a few hours and leave it in a parking lots and throw a match at it. |
| firemaker Posts: 192/194 |
Get a magnetic tape wiper and use it on the drive... then keep the drive or sell it on ebay as a formatted drive. |
| drjayphd Posts: 819/1170 |
Originally posted by sandrocklq ...why would I? I mean, come on, think about what/where we're talking about here. ANYWAY, she picked up the comp last week, and I suggested taking a hammer to it.  |
| Glyphodon Posts: 328/536 |
Originally posted by CrimsonGX Retreiving pieces of a broken hard drive scattered through foreign lands where most of the pieces are now things like parts of fighting tournament trophies would make for an awesome RPG. |
| sandrocklq Posts: 54/210 |
I take it you don't have any acid lying around strong enough to dissolve it? |
| Cynthia Posts: 3972/5814 |
Plugged it into my old Gateway computer, which melted the inside parts.
I think that's the most impressive part of that list, to be honest. Then again, nothing about Gateway's surprised me. |
| Xkeeper Posts: 3097/5653 |
Originally posted by drjayphd Quantum? Haha, I have a Quantum Bigfoot 8GB 5.25" HDD in my other computer, go figure. I'll almost undoubtably fry the microwave. So take the better option: Buy a cheap one at your local walgreens or other boring store -- usually they run for I think $30 for the cheap ones. Just be sure to record it! |
| SuperLuigi64 Posts: 21/281 |
Heres what I did to my aunt's ancient, (and by God, I mean 1990) hard drive.
1. Formatted it, 4 times. 2. Hooked it up and half install windows 98. 3. Plugged it into my old Gateway computer, which melted the inside parts. 4. Took it outside and smashed it with a hammer until it was in small pieces. 5. Buried it in various places. Good times. |
| DarkSlaya Posts: 791/936 |
Nuke it =D
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| MisterJones Posts: 59/125 |
Send it to me.
I'll smash it...  |
| Trapster Posts: 3231/3604 |
Fill it with gunpodwer or whatever you can get your hands on and blow it up.
Maybe there are firworks you can take it from. Or just make a home-made bomb with a recipe from the net. But be careful.  |
| Deleted User Posts: 69/-7750 |
Smash it open and scatter the pieces in several different foreign lands! |
| HyperHacker Posts: 2725/5072 |
I always figured what I'd do if I needed a disk's contents to absolutely not be recovered is something along these lines:
1) Overwrite it with crap several times. 2) Smash it into small pieces inside a plastic bag. 3) Burn the bag. 4) If there's any solid chunks left, mash them into powder. 5) Scatter the powder/ashes in the woods, river etc. 6) Realize there was one or two files on it I still wanted and forgot to back up. |
| Cellar Dweller + Posts: 84/138 |
If you really want to prevent a resourceful and determined adversary from recovering the data from the disk, more extreme measures need to be taken. Even a large number of overwrites with the disk heads followed by crushing can still leave old data readable by very sensitive equipment. There are few sure fire ways to destroy a disk: sandblasting or grinding the surface off of the platters or melting the disk (pictures!). |
| Zer0wned Posts: 39/118 |
microwave!??! metal + microwave = arcing, not to mention I'm not sure how the other materials within the HDD will handle that...
but keeping on the method of heat, use a torch =D |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 642/1312 |
I'm assuming it's being destroyed for security reasons. Use DBAN first and run about 8 passes over the disk, with anything but Quick Erase (only zero; good for clearing a disk for software, doesn't do squat for data recovery). |
| HyperHacker Posts: 2720/5072 |
You should have made a copy first! 
Seriously, yeah, get a hammer. |
| Sukasa Posts: 1382/2068 |
Just hit it with a sledgehammer. |
| drjayphd Posts: 785/1170 |
So upon orders from my boss, I've taken the hard drive out of her old comp. She's recycling it, but wanted me to destroy the hard drive (an ancient Quantum... maybe 4 GB? Does anyone still make internal HD's in the 5.25" style?). I can't break into the drive itself, because three of the screws are stripping, and I had a go at it in the parking lot (and consequently, bent a shitload of pins on the connector), but I just have to kill it dead. If I nuke this, will it damage the Officially Licensed Office Microwave? |
