Comments on: Recycling Your Old Computers http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/3096/recycling-your-old-computers/ Professional Organizing and Image Consultancy Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kathi http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/3096/recycling-your-old-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-995 Kathi Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:43:57 +0000 http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/?p=3096#comment-995 Hi Brenda, Here is a bit of info about wiping out your data: If you feel like tearing your computer apart, here are destruction methods that really work. All these involve destroying the hard drive platters (which are made of aluminum or glass): * Hammer the drive flat. * Put it through a press. * Remove the platters and destroy them through crushing, melting, grinding. (They also make good coffee coasters.) * Put a few nails through the drive (six inch nails work great - but make sure you're not fixing the drive to your floor while destroying it). * Shoot the drive - I don't recommend this, but I've seen some sites that do. Take your pick or come up with another method that achieves the same end (that is, bend or break the platters). If you prefer to insert a disc and let it work for you, pay $19.95 for this software program from White Canyon: http://bit.ly/9d0cry Hi Brenda,
Here is a bit of info about wiping out your data:

If you feel like tearing your computer apart, here are destruction methods that really work. All these involve destroying the hard drive platters (which are made of aluminum or glass):

* Hammer the drive flat.
* Put it through a press.
* Remove the platters and destroy them through crushing, melting, grinding. (They also make good coffee coasters.)
* Put a few nails through the drive (six inch nails work great – but make sure you’re not fixing the drive to your floor while destroying it).
* Shoot the drive – I don’t recommend this, but I’ve seen some sites that do.

Take your pick or come up with another method that achieves the same end (that is, bend or break the platters).

If you prefer to insert a disc and let it work for you, pay $19.95 for this software program from White Canyon:
http://bit.ly/9d0cry

]]> By: Kathi http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/3096/recycling-your-old-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Kathi Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:29:38 +0000 http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/?p=3096#comment-978 Thanks Pat - I always appreciate your input. Do you mean the Amvets in Oceanside? Thanks Pat – I always appreciate your input. Do you mean the Amvets in Oceanside?

]]> By: Pat http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/3096/recycling-your-old-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Pat Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:01:14 +0000 http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/?p=3096#comment-967 Hi, too add to the list, the VA second shop on Coast Blvd., in Oceanside, takes old computers, etc. Hi, too add to the list, the VA second shop on Coast Blvd., in Oceanside, takes old computers, etc.

]]> By: Brenda Dunagan http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/3096/recycling-your-old-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Brenda Dunagan Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:21:52 +0000 http://www.addspacetoyourlife.com/?p=3096#comment-961 Good article. Do you have advice regarding wiping clean the hard drive before donating / recycling? How can a person be sure their data is not still on there? This is probably why a lot of people don't readily get rid of computers. Good article. Do you have advice regarding wiping clean the hard drive before donating / recycling? How can a person be sure their data is not still on there? This is probably why a lot of people don’t readily get rid of computers.

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