Hi Puqing and Fabrice,
Thanks for the suggestions. i'll just manually and crudely destroy the
disk and dispose of it then. ;) Thanks!
Regards,
Edwin
Chen wrote:
I doubt the manufacturers will provide that service. To eliminate data
on a harddisk, you have to write 0000 on the disk first and write FFFF
on it and repeat the process for, say, twenty times.
You can smash the disk with a hammer and dispose the pieces to
different places too.
To the environment, a harddisk should be no more harmful than the
other parts of the computer, I believe.
Regards,
Puqing
On Jan 8, 2008 2:03 PM, Fabrice A. Marie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Edwin,
Edwin Lee wrote:
Hi all,
Firstly, apologies as this is really unrelated to Linux...
i have an old and totally malfunctioning laptop, as well as a spoilt
harddisk that i would like to dispose of. How can i best dispose of
them given two considerations:
1. Environmental friendliness
2. Paranoia (as in, me... hehe, i don't remember what data i had in
those things when they were last working (quite some time ago), but i
won't want anyone to be able to access them). OK OK i'm probably not
important enough for anyone to want to snoop around, but still...
Would appreciate your suggestions! Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Edwin
1- For the environment I'm not too sure. Probably return the disk to a
manufacturer
they are the one who'll know how to recycle it since they are the
one who built it.
2- For data security, the best is of course a full degaussing, but it's
really hard and long to
perform on a harddisk, hence I recommend writing null characters on
your disk
(filling your disk with null characters using the dd command) as
well as a crude
degaussing (use a strong electromagnet on an open harddisk) : the
air should already
kill your harrdisk beyond salvage, the crude degaussing will make
sure whatever
is salvaged is either null characters or other magnetic induced rubbish.
Hope this helps,
Have a nice day.
Fabrice.
--
Fabrice A. Marie
FMA Risk Management Solutions
http://www.fma-rms.com/
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