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by cartwrightb

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What is the proper way of disposing a harddrive? Is there a secure and proper protocol established in the industry?

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by syscokid

God question. I'm not sure if there's a standard. What we do is reformat using the /u switch (format c: /u) which means you can't later "unformat" the disk.

If you really want to trash it I bet a large magnet or tape degausser would do the trick.

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