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  #31  
Old June 15th 18, 09:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

"Bill Ward" wrote

| I could hand it in to a police station and say that I found it and let
| them destroy it. Story behind that is I once found a digital camera and
| handed it in. I asked what would happen to it and they said if it was
| not claimed after a certain time I could have it or it would be sold on
| the police auction site. I checked and it had not been claimed and went
| to collect it. The PCSO on the desk was about to give it to me when his
| colleague said that anything with memory on it could not be returned. I
| said I'd take it without the memory card and was told that a clever
| person could get at anything that had been deleted on the card or the
| internal memory and so would have to be destroyed.
| I was told that this also applied to laptops, phones and anything else
| with memory. I'd not heard of the police auction site and had a look to
| see what was being sold. The camera, as well phones and laptops were all
| on the site. I contacted them and was told they had been put on in error
| and it would be removed.

That sounds like a good plan. Then only
the local police, their brothers in law, their
old war buddies, and the guys at the gym
will be able to break into your bank account
or read your love letters.



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  #32  
Old June 15th 18, 09:11 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

On 15/06/2018 17:47, Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.


Put in a boiling water. Once it is liquidated, Drink the water sip by
sip so that everything goes to your brain where the info can be
retrieved when needed.

Good luck.

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  #33  
Old June 15th 18, 09:14 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 15/06/2018 17:53, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method
of disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.


Hammer works.


Do you really give any regards to the well being of Bill Ward, the
original poster? Using a hammer could damage his eye if the fragment
from the HD hits one of his eye. He is not likely to have any
protection when he is trying your stupid advice.

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  #34  
Old June 15th 18, 09:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

pjp wrote:
[...]
Just take the screws off as you see them. Many are torx head so I've
even used a grinder and simply ground them off. I'v even done brute
force with a screwdrive jammed down the side. The thin tin top will give
with enough force. Takes some effort but not usually much.


I've used that method - a screwdriver jammed down the side - on two
drives.

Drilling holes is a little bet more sophisticated, but takes some more
effort, mainly for securing the drive that it doesn't move/rotate during
the drilling.
  #35  
Old June 15th 18, 09:36 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 15/06/2018 20:32, pjp wrote:
Bottom line is that if it works reliably then buy an enclosure for it
and use it as an external drive is better than waste disposal and
landfill.


You are a complete idiot to make this suggestion.

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  #36  
Old June 15th 18, 09:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Take the magnet out.Â* Those things are powerful!


On word of warning, make sure *nothing of yourself* is in between when
one of those babies gets remotely close to another!

I have a ball of them on my shelf. Real bitch pulling them apart.

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  #37  
Old June 15th 18, 10:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

On 06/15/2018 09:53 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.


Hammer works.


1+

These things are so precise that any warping of the media
will render them useless.

Give it a couple of good whacks. Wear safety glasses.


  #38  
Old June 15th 18, 11:12 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ron C[_2_]
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

On 6/15/2018 3:35 PM, pjp wrote:
In article , says...

On 06/15/2018 12:28 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Bill Ward" wrote

| Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
| disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
| Bill.

Open it up. You'll find that the actual disks are
very brittle and shatter into *lots* of pieces.
You could probably also achieve that by just
bending it a bit in a vice.

PS - Watch out for tiny shards. They can be
very sharp. It's best to contain the destruction.



I take them apart to salvage the very powerful magnets They come in
handy and they are super strong.

Rene


I do that also. What I don't understand is how they attract so strongly
on one side and there's no force at all when back sides put together. To
me and everyone I've ever shown this to it's like magic.

Any chance you know how that works as I assume the magnetic field is
somehow shaped ans not circular like a normal magnet.


You can learn a lot about the magnetic fields with something like this:

Magnetic Viewing Film - Magnetic Field Display Film


https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-View...d+Display+Film


I found that refrigerator magnets can have all sorts of field
configurations.
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  #39  
Old June 16th 18, 12:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 15/06/2018 22:40, T wrote:
On 06/15/2018 09:53 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method
of disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.


Hammer works.


1+

These things are so precise that any warping of the media
will render them useless.

Give it a couple of good whacks.Â* Wear safety glasses.


CD's and DVD's I just put in the micro wave for a few seconds.
The financial director where I used to work had a novel way of
destroying a floppy disk. He brought a crumpled one to me and asked if I
could do anything with it. He had left it on the window sill in full
sunlight and gone on holiday.
Bill.
  #40  
Old June 16th 18, 12:23 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Ward
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On 15/06/2018 19:40, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 06/15/2018 1:22 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
On 15/06/2018 19:02, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 06/15/2018 12:28 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Bill Ward" wrote

| Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best
method of
| disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
| Bill.

Â*Â* Open it up. You'll find that the actual disks are
very brittle and shatter into *lots* of pieces.
You could probably also achieve that by just
bending it a bit in a vice.

PS - Watch out for tiny shards. They can be
very sharp. It's best to contain the destruction.



I take them apart to salvage the very powerful magnets They come in
handy and they are super strong.

Rene

I've never managed to take one apart. Is there a Youtube video for it?
Bill.


Mostly all you need is a set of small Torx screw drivers, Remove cover
than all visible screws.

Rene

I've got that far in the past but never felt that I had damaged them
enough to stop clever people getting data from them from stories I've read.
Bill.
  #41  
Old June 16th 18, 12:29 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Ward
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

On 15/06/2018 21:00, Mayayana wrote:
"Bill Ward" wrote

| I could hand it in to a police station and say that I found it and let
| them destroy it. Story behind that is I once found a digital camera and
| handed it in. I asked what would happen to it and they said if it was
| not claimed after a certain time I could have it or it would be sold on
| the police auction site. I checked and it had not been claimed and went
| to collect it. The PCSO on the desk was about to give it to me when his
| colleague said that anything with memory on it could not be returned. I
| said I'd take it without the memory card and was told that a clever
| person could get at anything that had been deleted on the card or the
| internal memory and so would have to be destroyed.
| I was told that this also applied to laptops, phones and anything else
| with memory. I'd not heard of the police auction site and had a look to
| see what was being sold. The camera, as well phones and laptops were all
| on the site. I contacted them and was told they had been put on in error
| and it would be removed.

That sounds like a good plan. Then only
the local police, their brothers in law, their
old war buddies, and the guys at the gym
will be able to break into your bank account
or read your love letters.



Or arrest you for some unseemly
pictures or video.
Bill.
  #42  
Old June 16th 18, 12:30 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Ward
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

On 15/06/2018 20:17, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 06/15/2018 1:24 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
On 15/06/2018 19:08, default wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:47:31 +0100, Bill Ward wrote:

Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.
Sounds good to me except for the pollution.

I take a 3 pound "engineer's hammer" to them.Â* It can destroy the cast
aluminum housing and platter beneath.

If you take a cover off you can use a Neodymium magnet over the
surface of the disk...

Could end up in a Basking sharks stomach. There was a big one off
shore recently.
Bill.


Here's some info for you Bill.

https://makezine.com/2015/12/10/salv...ld-hard-drive/

Rene

Thank you
Bill.
  #43  
Old June 16th 18, 12:42 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Ward
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On 15/06/2018 20:34, default wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:24:58 +0100, Bill Ward wrote:

On 15/06/2018 19:08, default wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:47:31 +0100, Bill Ward wrote:

Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.
Sounds good to me except for the pollution.

I take a 3 pound "engineer's hammer" to them. It can destroy the cast
aluminum housing and platter beneath.

If you take a cover off you can use a Neodymium magnet over the
surface of the disk...

Could end up in a Basking sharks stomach. There was a big one off shore
recently.
Bill.


Basking sharks are filter feeders, and hard drives sink.

I did get to see one up close ~30 miles offshore fishing once. The
sheer size of the thing was impressive, longer than my 20' boat.

The one seen here the other week was evidently over 25 feet.
https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/n...oast-1-8491675

Bill.
  #44  
Old June 16th 18, 12:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Ward
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Default Disposing of a hard drive.

On 15/06/2018 20:47, Ant wrote:
Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.


Throw it into a volcano. :P

Good idea, I've not been to Vesuvius or Etna for some time.
Bill.
  #45  
Old June 16th 18, 12:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Ward
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On 15/06/2018 21:11, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 15/06/2018 17:47, Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.


Put in a boiling water.Â* Once it is liquidated, Drink the water sip by
sip so that everything goes to your brain where the info can be
retrieved when needed.

Good luck.


If I add yeast and sugar will it ferment into wine
Bill.
 




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