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Best way to destroy disk?

Anyone have any good ways to destroy disk? Is just simply smashing it with a hammer the best way to go? It would be nice if there is some way to overwrite them first though but I don't know how to do. Thanks for any help.

muxia

The best way i would imagine so that nobody can access your files again is to Format the hardrive then because formatting a hard drive does not remove all files in your registry then you should smash it with a hammer.

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Hsv_Man

http://dban.sourceforge.net/ dban will wipe it more than good enough unless someones willing to pay A LOT to get it back. There's no point in physically destroying the disk, dban erases it as completely as you can.

Formatting removes the registry. The registry is just a file on the hard drive, formatting removes all data from the drive.

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Cromewell

There have been soooooooooo many threads on this topic, mostly just provoking people to come up with the most ridiculously complex ideas. Really, if you want a serious answer, the only way to make the data 100% non recoverable is to change the chemical composition of the disks. Easiest way would be to remove them and then take a blow torch to both sides, however I believe large corporations and government institutions use acid baths.

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PohTayToez

if there really was anything so important on this drive that needed you to distroy it in such extreme lengths then you'd already know how

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apj101

How about just pop it in the Microwave for 30 seconds? I don't know if it'll blow out your microwave window as well tho.

Or just toss it in the toilet & repeatedly flush