Re: Proper disposal of hard drives? -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Proper disposal of hard drives?
From: Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:54:58 -0700
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David Gibbs wrote:

I've got a few hard drives that have failed ... bad sectors, bad logic
boards, etc.

What's the best way to dispose of them so nobody can get any information
from them?

Interesting that no one mentioned a wiping program. Wiping is usually the response for an iSeries drive, but not here?

http://download.cnet.com/Active-Kill-Disk-Hard-Drive-Eraser/3000-2092_4-10073508.html

This way you can now recycle usefully.

Bill

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