Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => Computer Problems & Questions, Virus/Scam Warnings => Topic started by: Colwyn on April 07, 2013, 11:46:59 AM
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My old desktop PC is now so slow that I have decided to get rid of it. I haven't got rid of one before so I'd like to know what security precautions to take. It has all my banking and other financial details on there and I remember someone telling me that just deleting them does not completely rid the PC of all traces. I have also heard that I should remove the hard disk and break it with a hammer.
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You can send it to me my friend and I will look after it for you.
Your Friend In The Church Of Everything That Is Precious.
Barrister Doctor Colonel Professor Very Reverend Michael Z. Undingu.
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Correct!! remove the hard drive and smash it to ******* :D :D
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What is that missing word :D
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My guess is that it refers to something that was illegal in the UK until 1967.
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Erasing a hard drive generally doesn't do that, it just tells the computer not to bother looking in those areas anymore. So the info is still there.
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chuck it in a river :)
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hammer a masonary nail through the hard drive mid way between the outside and the hub and then chuck it in a river. No-one will ever be able to use that nail ever again :D
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http://www.tanelorn.co.uk/hdd/hdd1.htm
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Blimey, the solutions are getting increasingly drastic. Perhaps that nice Mr Kim will drop a nuke on it for me.
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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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Put it in Arsenals trophy cabnet that will not be opened ever again :D
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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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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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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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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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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.
8)
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Maybe this is the best option! :D
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/