[DM-MUG] destroying disk

[James Wu]

As Karl stated, a drill press is a good way to go.

If you don't have a drill press handy, simply dismantling the drive and removing the platters will make it extremely difficult to recover the data from the platters. If you want to go the extra mile, etching/scratching the platters after they have been removed from the drive should make it nigh impossible to pull data from the platters.

-- 
James Wu <James at gohaddock.com>
Apple Specialist/Service Technician (ACMT)

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On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Karl Hehr wrote:

> 
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I have a couple of HDs which are bad. How do I destroy the disk itself so that the data is not recoverable?
>> 
>> Ray Bowler
>> rbowler at mchsi.com
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> Drill Press is my tool of choice.
> 
> 
> --Karl Hehr
> 
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