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Need to erase old pc's Hard Drive

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RobertPters77

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I am going to physically destroy the disk anyway, but I need to make damn sure that noone can get to the files.

What's a good erasing program? At work I usually handed my disks off to the tech department, but I no longer have that privilege.

If you must know. It's pictures of me and my ex.
 
denis280 said:
If its good why destroying it???
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He's not destroying it he just wants to securely erase the data on it. Possibly to give it to someone else or sale it. This is a very wise thing to do. Go buy a used HD on ebay and it's very likely you can recover old data from it.
 
Maybe I'm not paranoid enough, but I don't see a reason to spend time erasing a drive that will be physically destroyed. Just smash the crap out of it.
 
A cutting torch will do the job and provide you pleasure at the same time. 🙂
 
I was wondering if there was a portable shredder you could buy that could shred a hard drive and anything else like paper documents. I think if someone could make this and marked it as such the do pretty well.
 
Check online for a paper shredding company nearby, and ask if they do HDD shredding. Most do. You can probably stop by and ask them to shred it in front of you for a few dollars. I had 100 shredded a few months ago for a few $ each. They'll even bring the shredder to your office, I guess as a sort of carnival for the IT staff. 😀
 
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