Hard Drive Destruction!!!

I made a thread on here recently to fix my hard drive with the clicking noise of death.
Seems like it can't be fixed so I have to get rid of it.
So what is the proper way to destroy a hard drive and get rid of all the data on it?
Stepping on it?
Magnets?
Hammer?
Water?
Recycling?

Any ideas?

Microwave, and if possible a shredder.

Microwave, and if possible a shredder.

GTR12

open it, take platters, burn them, recycle the rest.ttobba07

[QUOTE="ttobba07"]open it, take platters, burn them, recycle the rest.dabest2500

i dont know what he means but ill take a wild guess. i think he means open up the drive and pull put the actual disk and burn that and the housing for the disk recycle it

You guys on here are just totally out of touch with reality. Just hit the bloody thing with a hammer, it doesent need shredding unless its from a business or from the MoD.

Phillips head screw driver

Sledge hammer

Have one of your friends hold the screw driver on the hard drive while you hit it with a sledge hammer. Record yourself doing this and post it online if an accident happens.

[QUOTE="dabest2500"][QUOTE="ttobba07"]open it, take platters, burn them, recycle the rest.acsam12304

i dont know what he means but ill take a wild guess. i think he means open up the drive and pull put the actual disk and burn that and the housing for the disk recycle it

[QUOTE="GTR12"]

Microwave, and if possible a shredder.

dabest2500

Hence why I said microwave...

Hammer won't work, I tried running over a HDD with a car, and it still worked, it was one of those 700MB which I had no use for.

I made a thread on here recently to fix my hard drive with the clicking noise of death.
Seems like it can't be fixed so I have to get rid of it.
So what is the proper way to destroy a hard drive and get rid of all the data on it?
Stepping on it?
Magnets?
Hammer?
Water?
Recycling?

Any ideas?

dabest2500

ok so you really want to make sure that the data on yourhard drive is gone forever?

follow these 3steps carfully

1.make sure the hard drive is completly encased in duct tape,{dont want any little peices getting loose.}now tape thehard drive to a telephone pole.get into a vehicle and ram into the telephone pole at exactly 73mph.after you get out of the hospital,cut your duct taped hard drive from the remains of the telephone pole.now if you have done everything right it should kind of feel like a stiffhak e sac at this time.

2.take your new duct tape/hard drive/hak e sac to the nearest parking lot and spend a hour rolling over it with somthing heavy{preferably a steamroller} while enchanting it with curses from the advanced d&d dungeon master hand book vol4.now scrape up the remains with a shovel,carful not to touch it,{dont want to set off any of those nasty curses}and put the remains in a burlap sac soaked in gas for 3 days.light it and let it burn for 2 hours.

3.now comes the hard part.sweep the ahes into a steel container.then you must infiltrate nasa and secure the remains in the next thing they decide to send into space.then you must reprogram said transportation to send itself into the nearest black hole.

it might be a bit of overkill but you can be sure that data is gone and have the added bonus of being considered"green" for not polluting the earth with another hard drive.

[QUOTE="dabest2500"]

I made a thread on here recently to fix my hard drive with the clicking noise of death.
Seems like it can't be fixed so I have to get rid of it.
So what is the proper way to destroy a hard drive and get rid of all the data on it?
Stepping on it?
Magnets?
Hammer?
Water?
Recycling?

Any ideas?

eagle63

ok so you really want to make sure that the data on yourhard drive is gone forever?

follow these 3steps carfully

1.make sure the hard drive is completly encased in duct tape,{dont want any little peices getting loose.}now tape thehard drive to a telephone pole.get into a vehicle and ram into the telephone pole at exactly 73mph.after you get out of the hospital,cut your duct taped hard drive from the remains of the telephone pole.now if you have done everything right it should kind of feel like a stiffhak e sac at this time.

2.take your new duct tape/hard drive/hak e sac to the nearest parking lot and spend a hour rolling over it with somthing heavy{preferably a steamroller} while enchanting it with curses from the advanced d&d dungeon master hand book vol4.now scrape up the remains with a shovel,carful not to touch it,{dont want to set off any of those nasty curses}and put the remains in a burlap sac soaked in gas for 3 days.light it and let it burn for 2 hours.

3.now comes the hard part.sweep the ahes into a steel container.then you must infiltrate nasa and secure the remains in the next thing they decide to send into space.then you must reprogram said transportation to send itself into the nearest black hole.

it might be a bit of overkill but you can be sure that data is gone and have the added bonus of being considered"green" for not polluting the earth with another hard drive.

so btw, the magnets would have been just fine, and actually the most efficientULTIMATEZWARRIO

[QUOTE="dabest2500"][QUOTE="GTR12"]

Microwave, and if possible a shredder.

GTR12

Hence why I said microwave...

Hammer won't work, I tried running over a HDD with a car, and it still worked, it was one of those 700MB which I had no use for.

If it's clicking then it's not usable, but drilling through it a few times will make that permanent. Smashing it with a hammer would be fun thoughAvenger1324

[QUOTE="GTR12"]

[QUOTE="dabest2500"] Won't microwaving it make it explode :shock:dabest2500

Hence why I said microwave...

Hammer won't work, I tried running over a HDD with a car, and it still worked, it was one of those 700MB which I had no use for.

[QUOTE="Avenger1324"]If it's clicking then it's not usable, but drilling through it a few times will make that permanent. Smashing it with a hammer would be fun thoughdabest2500

Regular water won't do much, it ruins it, but data can be salvaged, pour some salt in there or some dirt and leave it overnight.

so btw, the magnets would have been just fine, and actually the most efficientULTIMATEZWARRIO

but not the most fun!

[QUOTE="Avenger1324"]If it's clicking then it's not usable, but drilling through it a few times will make that permanent. Smashing it with a hammer would be fun thoughdabest2500

No, submerging in water won't work. The platters are where the data is stored, the round disks, that's where all the data is. Just break those up, that's it. No oe is going to try hard enough to recover the fragments unless the CIA is after you or something.

[QUOTE="Avenger1324"]If it's clicking then it's not usable, but drilling through it a few times will make that permanent. Smashing it with a hammer would be fun thoughdabest2500

Water won't do much. The data is stored magnetically on platters.

For drilling you want the drill to pass through the platters destroying them in the process. If the platter is destroyed then there is no possible way to recover data from it. The area that has been drilled will be little more than dust.

Hitting with a hammer would work by applying a lot of force through a small area and having a shattering effect on the platters.

Wiping a magnet over the platters would also be effective at destroying the data, making it impossible to recover.

so btw, the magnets would have been just fine, and actually the most efficientULTIMATEZWARRIO

Just in case any of you were under the impression of my drive being big: