How do I dispose of my old laptop?

[RICHARD]

I just stand up and LO!


No more lap top.......


(Ed hates it tho.....)

[mrspunkysmom]

The guys at CDO helped me destroy a hard drive. Several drops, drilling through the drive, and hitting it with a sledge hammer destroyed it. The drive had already been scrambled by a power surge.

If you know how to deconstruct your computer you could apply a STRONG magnet to it. Probably shouldn't bring the magnet in the house though. It might screw up your other electronics.

[Alysser]

The guys at CDO helped me destroy a hard drive. Several drops, drilling through the drive, and hitting it with a sledge hammer destroyed it.

My info tech professor told us to do this, says there are programs that can revert a reformat. Not sure how true that is though.

[Karen]

It depends on the nature of the reformat.

If you just want to destroy the hard drive, that's easy enough, open up the computer, use a hammer if ya want, and just take the hard drive apart. All the data is on a little platter - scratch it up and it's toast.

[Catty1]

There are programs that can recover "deleted" files from a reformatted drive. I have one and have had to use it for clients. It works great - but not every person on the street is going to have it!

(My most recent successful use of it resulted in the hard drive, computer tower and my 1 terrabyte backup drive being taken by the RCMP due to illegal photos that were recovered. I called the police...they said I would get my backup drive back...I hope so!)

[Freedom]

I just stand up and LO!


No more lap top.......


(Ed hates it tho.....)

LOL thanks, Richard!!!

Thank you all for the guidance. I appreciate it.

I also know where Dad keeps the sledge hammer!

[smokey the elder]

If you can get near a high field NMR or MRI that'll cook the hard drive good! Or you can do a full format, if there isn't a superconducting magnet handy.