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cover it with concrete and throw it to the bottom of a lake, and maybe someday a more advanced civilazation will discover it and clone you from it and make you king. That'd be cool. Shutle MN31N mobo 2500+ Barton 1gig DDR Kingston HyperX Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb Antec True Power 430w Dual 40gig WD.

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signatures are about you. Posting is about the poster.

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nothing, someone will always managed to retrieve the data, even if it's melted, I read that from a security book. Tim

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Do all of the above! And then mail all the pieces to various locations around the world! That should do it!

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Hammer or Drill are both effective and final. BTW, "I read that from a security book." What moron wrote that book? Skip

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You guys are nuts!! Thanks for the input.

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Build personal rocket and launch it to outer space after drilling it, hammering it, and reading what the moron said about retrieving it. For every american man and woman who has lost your life in Iraq I say thankyou for so costly a sacrifice and pray peace to your families.

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ak_moose: Well, you asked. I'd prefer melting it, but commercially they just demagnetize the whole thing.

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>> someone will always managed to retrieve the data, even if it's melted. >> Did the moron who wrote this also say that the time and effort expended on retrieving data is proportional to the importance of the data therein. Actually, melting is probably what The White House and CIA do to their old disks. So unless the disk came out of a computer in The White House or the CIA, any of the destructive methods above will more than enough. Stuart

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Melting it won't work either. Al you have to do is contact Mr. Peabody with his way-back machine and go back in time before it was melted and retrieve the data. So you see there really is no way to protect yourself.

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Give it to your most bitter ex for safe keeping.... ____________________________ The greatest risk is not taking one

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I personally used the backside of a vice grip, smashed the crap out of it. But... the safest way is to take it to a local foundry and throw it into the molten metal. That or into an active volcano! It is the only secure way to destroy it.

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tehe, this thread is funny... I suggest putting into the next rubbish/dumpster truck that passes and watch in glee as 20 tonnes of pneumatic pressure crushes it. then takes it to be buried under rotten and corrosive food, nappys etc!

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the best soloution is to put a stamp on it and give it to the royal mail to post....no one will ever see it again.

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Something nobody has asked, but probably crossed everyones mind... So what HAVE you got on your Hard drive that is so sensitive??.....a matter of national security??? I know that would be tellin':P btw, my advice is let me build a machine with it, it will surely be useless by the time ive finished with it)) *boom!* Boo!

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>> the best soloution is to put a stamp on it and give it to the royal mail to post....no one will ever see it again. << That has to be the best solution I have seen. Isn't it a shame that the majority of people reading this don't have access to the Royal Mail. Stuart

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Throw it in a johny on the spot when it is full of crap.Noone will ever dare to try to recover it.LOL!!!!

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HA!HA!.you guys are funny.HeHe.I give the hdd to my ex wife,here ass is big enough to inhail the whole thing.lol!!

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Someone should submit this thread to a pc magazine lol....very funny... Boo!

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Remove it from the computer, label it payroll server backup and put it away, no one will ever touch it. Hank "Hardware /nm./: the part of the computer that you can kick"

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Best topic ever IMO... I'd personally, grab the HDD, douce it in Lemon Juice for a good 30 minutes, before placing it in the oven... now be sure not to burn it JUST yet 'cause you will ruin the process of destroying the hard-drive. Leave it in the oven for about an hour, then take it out side and play some cricket/football/or rugby (your choice) with it, before finally, flying an Boeing 747 into it... this process is tricky 'cause lets face it, you're gonna die....... so skip that idea and mail it to the white house... George Bush is too dumb to realise what it is and will claim it as his own... when the FBI do their annual search around the house, they will find the hard-drive with your kiddie porn on, then my bush will no longer be a bush... more a gay scapegoat in a prison in texas... it's all good Or you could just melt it... which lets face it, would just save all of the above nonesense.... Good luck Aaron

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Donate it to a gay museum and tell them that there is straight men saved on video on the hdd.LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I just gotta chime in here, I'll be serious as all the good joking ones are taken, lol. Do this, use the Guttman method of erasing the disk, which means to use a software app that overwrites the disk and overwrites it 35 times with 1's and 0's. Next, take it apart and beat the crap out of it with pipes, hammers, whatever you can find until the thing is in pieces. Then take the pieces and bury some of them in 2 or 3 locations (half a foot under dirt will do). Take the remaining pieces, put them in a plastic baggie, come to Indiana and place the bag in the Ohio River. One day underwater and the thing will first glow in the dark and then vaporize (you should see what the fish look like). Ok ok, take the remaining pieces to the local dump. No need for sneaking into a foundry (though it might be much more fun).

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well here is my suggestion it saves you actually pulling a ligament destroying the hard drive or burning yourself. attch a small clock to the hard drive so it makes a ticking noise. either leave it in a brown box under a seat at an airport or send it to the most important person in your country. bush=us blair=uk i'm not going to list the rest. the chosen countrys bomb disposal team will happily take care of your hard drive and you can even watch as the exciment unfolds. you might even have a newspaper spread to frame and keep forever. effortless and pleasing but maybe slightly illegal Athlon xp 2000+ @1.7 pc 2100 256mb ram radeon 8500 win xp home oem several other things new pc on way

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YO! This is how gona go down aight? Well, someone get one of those floppy disks that erase the hard drive...Then put it in a computer and format the drive to FAT32...Install Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition and watch the hard disk and potentially ur whole comp die in shreds... im not really blind...

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Wow. I wish I had something worthy on my hard drive to diserve all this. It's a shame that it is only old business records. Thanks for your help.

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alternatively by a maxtor and the data will self destruct after 18 months anyway! 3 drives 3 different sizes all maxtor all 18 months old all died in 7 days all died the same death coincidence?