Question by Girl Pants: How do I recycle my old laptop with important information on my hard drive?
I would like to find a cheap or free way to delete all important information on my hard drive before I recycle it.
Best answer:
Answer by Shazzalive
Simply reformatting won’t be enough: In fact it’s not that hard to recover data from a formatted drive. What you need is something like Eraser; a free program developed under the open-source GNU public licence.
I’ve included 2 links below: One to the home page of Eraser, and the other to a Google listing of similar programs.
Google is your friend.
What do you think? Answer below!
Try swiping a magnet over it a few times. That will destroy it for good. You could also break it open and damage the platforms (disks) inside of it, rendering it USELESS. Just cause as much damage as possible. I cracked my last one open, scratched all the disks, put lighter fluid in it, and then lit it. Then i recycled it.