[Novalug] pentium 11 computer - and recycling

[Stephan Greene]

DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is your friend.  http://www.dban.org
I used it last month to wipe a storage box full of old HD's before taking
them to the monthly PC Recycling drop off in Chantilly.  Or pay them $10 per
HD to watch them crush it for you.

Steve

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:

> I have to remove the hard drive since there is a lot of personal stuff
> from the former owner's business on it. It is indeed a time machine a view
> into the ancient days of windoze95- the date on the bios is 1999.
>
> I hoped I could reformat the harddrive by putting Damn Small
> Linux on it but it will not even do anything with that and it is my
> understanding that just running dos fdisk on the harddrive does not
> make the data really unrecoverable unless something is written over
> the sectors.
>
> Have people stopped to think that putting their old computers in the
> recycling trailers where they are shipped off to ??? to be recycled
> without trashing the harddrives in some way could be releasing a lot of
> personal data?
>
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