I have an old laptop that has a motherboard problem that I want to get rid of. It does not boot, nor run the bios POST.
I'm sensitive about leaving information on the hard drive. What is a good way of erasing the information on the hard drive of a dead computer, before disposing of the unit?
Best Answer
Given that you want to hook the drive up to another machine (and given plenty of good answers for how to destroy the drive)
You want something like: IDE USB adapter, which will allow you to plug from drive into USB. You'll be able to over-write the data, unless your adversary wants to disassemble the drive (to maybe read bad blocks, plus whatever the USB can't reach?).