Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed a bunch of drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that doesn't work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat would it take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on Youtube of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I can<br>
use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?<br>
<br>
I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't want to<br>
bother trying to figure out what's on them.<br>
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Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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the pretense of taking care of them."<br>
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