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Offline stoop

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2013, 12:24:03 PM »
Fill it up with Des O'Conner songs before you get rid! No one will bother with it after hearing the first one  ;)

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2013, 14:51:52 PM »
Put it in Arsenals trophy cabnet that will not be opened ever again  :D

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2013, 11:06:05 AM »
I have finally got round to dealing with my old PC. When looking up how to remove the hard drive I saw a lot of comments on the "hammer" solution to dealing with security. All were saying that it was unnecessarily drastic, the reasoning being that you can buy credit card details online for £10 so it wouldn't be sensible to go to much effort to recover a cleaned disk - unless it belonged to an international secret agent, and I have retired.


Instead of a hammer, a software cleansing program, such as DBAN, is advised. Has anybody any experience or view on this?

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2013, 11:09:45 AM »
By the time you download the software,then let it run through your system you might as well take the back of the pc and go for the
'Smash up the harddrive option'  :)

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2013, 17:31:30 PM »
A colleague at work has a brother who owns a company that specialises in retrieving data from hard drives. In 10 years and thousands of drives they have never once failed to retrieve data from an undamaged drive. Their mantra is "What can be done by software can be undone by software".

Option 1    Hammer,
Option 2    Hammer, Nail
Option 3    Hammer, Nail, Fire, River

You choose    :)

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2013, 18:57:54 PM »
I just took my hard drive out and chucked it in the loft. They take up next to no room and its safe up there from anyone trying to get to it.

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2013, 19:48:21 PM »
I was told just to leave it in a bowl of water for a week????????? By the engineer who  installed our new computer!!!!!!!

So smashed it with hammer, soaked in water and finally laid it to rest under freshly concrete path....job done.

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Re: Getting Rid of PC
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2013, 20:30:59 PM »
Maybe this is the best option! :D
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/




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