Hard drive termination

I got to bring a friend’s old desktop home to play with in exchange for destroying the hard drive therein. I haven’t done anything with the machine yet, but I killed the drive already.

Murdered hard drive. (Click for larger.)

She told me her computer guy had told her the drive was no good, so whether it could be effectively overwritten was questionable. However, drilling a hole through all of the platters eliminates any remotely likely recovery attempts. (I understand that data could still be recovered from such a drive with expensive imaging equipment, but we’re dissuading identity theft and such, not high-stakes espionage.)

I’ll get the old machine up with a bootable Linux USB stick in a bit and see what I have.

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