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Formatting machines for disposal

The Black Oil · 2010-09-24 19:07:00

Can anyone recommend an effective methods for fully wiping a machine before recycling it? I'm helping out in a school at the moment and there's a fair amount of PCs that are now obsolete Win 98, Win2K. I tried to create a 'Boot and Nuke' CD (see Google), but I wasn't able to get the machines to alter the BIOS or read the…

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Can anyone recommend an effective methods for fully wiping a machine before recycling it? I'm helping out in a school at the moment and there's a fair amount of PCs that are now obsolete Win 98, Win2K. I tried to create a 'Boot and Nuke' CD (see Google), but I wasn't able to get the machines to alter the BIOS or read the burnt CD.... There's not really anything sensitive on these PCs, just games, Office, etc. Reinstalling Windows doesn't always fully wipe stuff.

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#2 24-09-2010 8:12pm

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take a hammer to the HDD if they are being dumped.Crude but effective.

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#3 24-09-2010 10:39pm

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#4 24-09-2010 11:30pm

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install the hard drives into a computer that will run DBAN and yer sorted

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#5 26-09-2010 7:50pm

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Thanks for the suggestions. The hammer isn't really viable as I don't think I could make that much noise in a computer room which is used quite a lot. Plus, there's a fair few machines to be disposed of.

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#6 26-09-2010 7:56pm

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twenty four hours of dban, or drop the drives into a mechanical crusher, or degausser.

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#7 26-09-2010 8:15pm

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just remove the harddrive?

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