I am working an hour or so every day cleaning out my dungeon of a basement. I am now down to my piles of (sadly) worthless old PC parts. What a poor way to spend one's money. Buy a computer for a cou
I am working an hour or so every day cleaning out my dungeon of a basement. I am now down to my piles of (sadly) worthless old PC parts. What a poor way to spend one's money. Don't forget to clean of
Jack and all; Sadly, just formatting a hard drive won't get the job done. I have been involved with a company that "recovers" data that has been erased, reformatted, and written over. Their specialty
Don't know what laws are like in Canada (or even other parts of the US), but there may be an environmental issue with just dumping them. Monitors in particular (so I understand) contain quite a bit o
Regular formatting is not enough if you really are (which you should be) concerned about this. There is freeware software that actually goes back and writes over the data. Or do a low-level format (w
Even that is not an absolute guarantee, if someone wants the data bad enough. However, a decent 'scrubber' program that re-writes the entire surface many times with different, random data, is pretty
Mark (and anyone else contemplating disposing of old computers etc.) Please don't take them out to the curb (and by extension the landfill). Computer components are chock full of nasty chemicals. ele
To Be completely safe you should "zero out" your drive. This is a rewrite of the entire drive in a continuos stream of "0"s /// triumphs@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi
I recently sorted through my PC museum and sold a selection of everything from (2x)386, (3x)486, P233, PII 450, about 10 hard drives from 80 meg- 2 gig, and 4 14-15" monitors I got $120.00 for the w
<< When my wife gets bored with her new Toshiba E330 PDA I'm taking it for my tool box it has a PDF reader so I could have all my shop manuals in my shirt pocket. Doug Hamilton 1960 Triumph TR3A 1963
Mark> somewhere. But after that it's out to the curb. :^( Google for "donate computer". If you can't find a charitable organization to take the boxes off your hands, you might try and find a company
involved with a company that "recovers" data that has been erased, reformatted, and written over. Their specialty is in the field of forensic discovery for criminal and civil matters. A big hammer is
How fortuitous that the Mercury News would have an article today on deleting data before disposing of hard drives. It is on-line at: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/persona
Hi Mark I had some old 386 486 bits, I was able to repair / improve a neighbours (six year old, but a good mechanic!) computer, and give a whole working computer to another young deprived child, both