What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it?

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:04:36PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
> jd1008 wrote:
> 
> [snip] 
> 
> Remove the cover. Remove the platters. Smash all platters with large sledge 
> hammer until all pieces are fairly small. Melt material with oxyacetylene 
> welders torch. Repeat smashing with hammer. Soak for few hours in 

> hydrofluoric acid.

Probably a case of the cure being worse than the disease!
OTOH, HF can definitely free you of all worries about harddrives.

Of course if you *really* want to dial it up to 11 you go directly for ClF3.
Pouring that in the enclosure would probably make further steps unneccesary.

Roland
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