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.
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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