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How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« on: 05 February 2015, 08:10:16 »
Morning guys,

Got this sitting round in my garage taking up space (picture from Google, not my actual one).....

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=old+time+machine+cpu&biw=1366&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wCTTVKaTL8fg7QbfhoHYBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=time+pc&imgdii=_&imgrc=wLiOYDoGaWQcuM%253A%3BEerbSuGHcyFZBM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ffarm1.static.flickr.com%252F158%252F398760192_429cbbc4cb_b.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fforums.digitalspy.co.uk%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D1254540%3B1024%3B768

How do I dispose of this without someone getting in to the personal data? I cant get in to ''format'' it cos its so old I have no idea what passwords are or even still have the monitor for it.

Any ideas?:)
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #1 on: 05 February 2015, 08:33:12 »
Remove the hard drive and put a hammer through it.... or just take it apart and break the vacuum seal on it, that will instantly destroy it...

The take the PC tower and its gubbins to your local recycling depot, there will be a place for PC's and electricals to be disposed of....
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #2 on: 05 February 2015, 09:38:57 »
Take the hard drive out and then either

Give it away on Gumtree or freecycle. One mans junk another mans treasure.
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #3 on: 05 February 2015, 11:42:35 »
Presumably running a welder over the casing would affect future functionality ::)
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #4 on: 05 February 2015, 11:44:29 »
Bin the case
Microwave the hard drive  :D
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #5 on: 05 February 2015, 11:45:52 »
Quote from: tigers_gonads on 05 February 2015, 11:44:29
Bin the case
Microwave the hard drive  :D
And then weld the microwave back together :D
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #6 on: 05 February 2015, 11:52:56 »
Quote from: Taxi Al on 05 February 2015, 11:45:52
Quote from: tigers_gonads on 05 February 2015, 11:44:29
Bin the case
Microwave the hard drive  :D
And then weld the microwave back together :D


Forgot to say, best use somebody else's microwave as they may be a few tiny sparks while its cooking  :-X :D :D
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #7 on: 05 February 2015, 13:51:54 »
If you do decide to microwave it, please video record it LOL
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #8 on: 05 February 2015, 18:24:12 »
Burn it :D :D

Or bring it over here and will run over it in the truck ..
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #9 on: 05 February 2015, 18:49:25 »
Take the hard drive out and send it to one of our resident IT experts, who will check it and tell us what your taste in porn is!  :D
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #10 on: 05 February 2015, 20:48:46 »
I have a plasma cutter that could ensure data would be challenging to recover ;D
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #11 on: 05 February 2015, 20:49:32 »
But pop the top of disk (to get loads of dust and shit in there), then educated it with a FBH
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #12 on: 05 February 2015, 20:54:18 »
Haha thanks for the ideas boys. Now you mention it I think I could use it as part of a welding project  :-X ;D
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #13 on: 06 February 2015, 00:03:44 »
Quote from: minifreek on 05 February 2015, 08:33:12
Remove the hard drive and put a hammer through it.... or just take it apart and break the vacuum seal on it, that will instantly destroy it...

The take the PC tower and its gubbins to your local recycling depot, there will be a place for PC's and electricals to be disposed of....

As he says - only sure way to prevent data recovery from a hard drive is to physically wreck the internal platters.  Just breaking the vac seal wont prevent subsequent data recovery ;)

Rest to local recycling - with no hard drive, no risk of any data recovery issues ;)
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Re: How can I dispose of old PC / CPU
« Reply #14 on: 07 February 2015, 12:06:44 »
Thanks guys. To get to the hard drive is it just a few screws holding the front cover on or should I just butcher the whole thing with the grinder lol
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