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Broken/Unwanted Laptop computers
Schrodinger - 10/6/09 at 01:07 AM

If anybody has any broken or unwanted laptops I have a friend who is repairing said computers and distributing them for charity. Any hard drives will be totaly wiped and the machines will be going to a good cause.

02GF74 - 10/6/09 at 06:30 AM

I know of one broken computer, contact Gary.Glitter@msmail.co.uk

Mr Whippy - 10/6/09 at 08:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
I know of one broken computer, contact Gary.Glitter@msmail.co.uk




I thought the only way to really wipe a hard drive was to delete everything on it and then fill it right up with new data?

[Edited on 10/6/09 by Mr Whippy]

cd.thomson - 10/6/09 at 09:19 AM

you can delete the data, which only removes the pointers to the data, then overwrite the actual data with 0s (two or three times if youve got some really naughty stuff on there )

MikeRJ - 10/6/09 at 10:02 AM

Eraser or SDelete will do the job.

iank - 10/6/09 at 10:32 AM

Only 100% theoretically guaranteed way is:



and

cd.thomson - 10/6/09 at 10:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
Only 100% theoretically guaranteed way is:

*angry grinder*

and

*hammer*


Noo, have you never seen NCIS? they'll just piece it back together.

What you need is these boys:

Schrodinger - 10/6/09 at 01:09 PM

The software used is called kill disk which does delete the data and then overwrites with 1 & 0 s a number of times so that the original data is no longer available even to NCIS

britishtrident - 10/6/09 at 07:53 PM

Open the box is the laptop dead or alive ?

David Jenkins - 10/6/09 at 08:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Open the box is the laptop dead or alive ?


Schrödinger's laptop?

Schrodinger - 10/6/09 at 10:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Open the box is the laptop dead or alive ?


Well atm it's alive

But then I havn't tried gassing it.