Just to give you guys a heads-up

[Zaaphod]

I also forgot to mention that you can also give the hard drive a proper cremation and then dump the ashes in a local river. I'd like to see the forensics team put back together that one.

There's another way to destroy a hard drive...

...install Windows Vista on it.

[osprey]

OH SNAP!

[Doc Sigma]

There's another way to destroy a hard drive...

...install Windows Vista on it.

[Tai]

Vista isn't THAT bad


at least if you don't plan on installing anything







and tweaking a few settings

[Mista_B]

Well, y'know...

[Holyman83]

lol

[Zaaphod]

Vista isn't THAT bad


at least if you don't plan on installing anything







and tweaking a few settings

Yep, computers work great until you install software on them.

[VenM2]

You know when I read this I felt shivers and checked my e-mail immediately. This sounds real bad.

[Arloest]

You know when I read this I felt shivers and checked my e-mail immediately. This sounds real bad.

...did you not read the rest of the topic?

[VenM2]

yep and you make me feel silly.

[Softpaw]

About the only way to permanently cause irreparable damage to a hard drive would be to do one of the following:

A. Physically destroy the device by repeadetly hitting it with a sledgehammer or other equivalent blunt instrument and/or something equivalent of dealing a heavy blow [like running it over with a vehicle or dropping it off a building].

B. Stick it in the microwave and nuke the thing.

C. Stick a magnet on the hard drive. Preferably the biggest one you can buy. This will make the contents of the hard drive at the very least unreadable.

If I remember correctly, under Windows 95-era DOS, there was a way for software running at OS-level to cause drive heads to crash.