Hard drive question

[cyadict]

I had to have a new hard drive installed on my computer today. I was wondering what the easiest way to make sure that all the information is actually deleted from the old one. Secondly, can I just throw the old one away, or is there something better to do with it?

 

[tman24]

killdisk

http://www.killdisk.com/

i use it and we also used it to wipe computers at work

 

[Bader]

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe

Download the ISO and burn it to a CD.

Boot to the CD and wipe the drive.

As far as throwing it away, try to find an e waste center or something equivalent. That thing will sit in a dump until the sun burns out

 

[tman24]

here is the link directly to the iso

http://software.lsoft.net/boot-cd-iso.zip

 

[tman24]

or you can just collect all your old hard drives and do this with them

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocnQ0NMTUA]YouTube - Maxtor Hard Drive Dominoes[/ame]

 

[dukeebear]

Use this

 

[Cyvilian]

Use this

That's what I do...

 

[aweb84]

Drill several holes in the hard drive while it is still in one piece.

 

[aweb84]

Also if you do the DBAN or killdisk people suggest running it 3 or more times over to completely remove the data.

 

[cyadict]

The hard drive has alredy been removed, so I guess the hammer is the way to go.