Some useful advice for anyone thinking of passing on or selling their old computer.
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To: canuck_conservative
any computer Im thinking of passing on gets the hard drive magnetized and smashed to bits.
To: canuck_conservative
To: canuck_conservative
Here's how I do it.
4 posted on
09/03/2006 9:04:22 PM PDT by
perfect stranger
(Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass). "Getting bombed has always struck me as the better option.")
To: canuck_conservative
To: canuck_conservative
6 posted on
09/03/2006 9:06:06 PM PDT by
RS
("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
To: canuck_conservative
Wiping a 250 GB hard drive takes a long time -- multiple hours
7 posted on
09/03/2006 9:06:54 PM PDT by
AZLiberty
(Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
To: canuck_conservative
Anyone heard of BlastFurnace 1.0?
8 posted on
09/03/2006 9:08:18 PM PDT by
LibWhacker
(There are no such things as moderate muslims, only jihadis in a larval stage.)
To: canuck_conservative
To: canuck_conservative
Cyberscrub professional up to 35 pass sanitizer Gutmann.
11 posted on
09/03/2006 9:12:49 PM PDT by
Total Package
(TOLEDO, OHIO THE BLUE PIMPLE IN A SEA OF RED!)
To: canuck_conservative
12 posted on
09/03/2006 9:13:05 PM PDT by
Christian4Bush
("Ma'am, you don't have to thank us. You just go beat him for us." Soldier to Irey re: Murtha)
To: canuck_conservative
Lay a strong magnet on your hard drive to wipe it and reformat after deleting partitions with an XP or a 2000 Installation Windows disk.
You can also remove the hard drive and have those you give the gift to go to Frys and spend $20 for another hard drive on sale.
13 posted on
09/03/2006 9:15:05 PM PDT by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: canuck_conservative
15 posted on
09/03/2006 9:17:58 PM PDT by
cynwoody
To: canuck_conservative
This is like such old news, I can hardly believe it's being posted AGAIN in 2006.
16 posted on
09/03/2006 9:20:15 PM PDT by
Jorge
To: canuck_conservative
I like heat, and now days the platters are made of aluminum rather than glass. Aluminum melts at 1100, and becomes like plastic at 800 /aprox>
17 posted on
09/03/2006 9:20:33 PM PDT by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: canuck_conservative
To: canuck_conservative
Quick and simple.
21 posted on
09/03/2006 9:23:31 PM PDT by
Bullish
( The pig headed monkeys of Islam can kiss my grits!)
To: canuck_conservative
I have
PGP on my machine. The free version puts a cute shredder icon on the desktop, which invokes the wipe utility on any files dropped on it. The wipe function can be configured to make from one to 28 passes. One is good enough. 28 is for the truly paranoid.
The package also includes a free space wiping utility. It's best done while you sleep — it takes hours on a big disk.
26 posted on
09/03/2006 9:30:09 PM PDT by
cynwoody
To: canuck_conservative
One of the joys of living in the country is burning brush every few months. Whenever I retire a PC, I pull the hard drive. Then, the next time I burn brush, I toss all my retired hard drives in (along with any paper files I want to dispose of).
I am absolutely confident that no one will ever retrieve data off of any of the small slags of melted aluminum I pull out of the ashes the next day.
30 posted on
09/03/2006 9:37:53 PM PDT by
kennedy
("Why would I listpen to losers?")
To: canuck_conservative
I forget which version of AOL but it would rendered your hard drive useless.
31 posted on
09/03/2006 9:39:40 PM PDT by
ThomasThomas
(I did use spell check!)
To: canuck_conservative
I was saving old hard disks and planning on erasing them all at once with a low yield nuclear warhead. Unfortunately all of my searching for uranium to make the warhead got the government's attention. Why didn't I have Joe Wilson investigate me?
35 posted on
09/03/2006 9:42:27 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(UN Security Council resolution 1701: I believe it is ceasefire for our time.)
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