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How to erase a HDD when the computer won't boot?
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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 987195" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>Actually, I've pulled old and failed PCs apart for others to do just what you're planning to do - destroy the disks <strong>inside</strong> the drive. I simply bent them in half, no way was anything going to be 'extracted' from those.</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Deviating off-topic slightly ... a pointer - the magnets inside a drive are high quality and strength, some of the best I've ever come across. I gave them to our local school for use in science, or others I used to attach to a sheet of metal for use as a nail finder on demolition sites. Those magnets soon picked up metal debris left behind. If the drives were in working order however, I retained them, reformatted them (using the adaptor I mentioned), and then either gave them away to budding enthusiasts, or used them myself, including a 6 Gb BigFoot!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 987195, member: 56231"] Actually, I've pulled old and failed PCs apart for others to do just what you're planning to do - destroy the disks [B]inside[/B] the drive. I simply bent them in half, no way was anything going to be 'extracted' from those. [size=1]Deviating off-topic slightly ... a pointer - the magnets inside a drive are high quality and strength, some of the best I've ever come across. I gave them to our local school for use in science, or others I used to attach to a sheet of metal for use as a nail finder on demolition sites. Those magnets soon picked up metal debris left behind. If the drives were in working order however, I retained them, reformatted them (using the adaptor I mentioned), and then either gave them away to budding enthusiasts, or used them myself, including a 6 Gb BigFoot![/size] [/QUOTE]
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