Yea, I think I'll just take out the hard drive and beat it with a wrench. Seems safer Busy disassembling the old laptop as we speak, so many little screws its shocking to me, never disassembled a laptop before
I hear a drill is a good way to deal with the problem. Another way is to explode it with thermite. That might be fun!
Ship it down to @Revengeofthenerds . I'm sure he can find a way to violently erase all the data from it all while erasing some of his memory at the same time via his 2897569th concussion.
Got the hard drive out, ruined everything else, don't have a drill, so I was thinking about just chucking it in the Mississippi?
If he was willing to do a flying elbow drop on it from the top of the roof, I'd be so down. Looks like sometime in the future a friend will dispose of it for me, likely using a .22 or something else fun
It depends on how paranoid you are. The county district attorney where I used to live disappeared and they found his laptop in a river. They were able to retrieve some information even though it had been in the water. It's been at least fifteen years since he disappeared and there's still no clue where he is.
How to destroy a hard drive: 1. Hit hard drive with hammer multiple times. 2. Put hard drive in bucket. Fill bucket with Lysol. Make sure area is well ventilated. 3. Let hard drive sit for 3-4 days. 4. Rinse hard drive off, wrap in plastic, then put hard drive in freezer for 3-4 days. 5. Take hard drive out of freezer and throw hard drive in ocean/large body of water. 6. Drink.
So like most people, I'm just now learning that all the info from that computer is contained on a small thin metallic disk...I don't get it but I don't care to understand how thats physically possible. I'll just accept it and not let my mind wander into how that works. Hard drives, physically insignificant, however far from it when it comes to information.
There's others where that guy throws his kids cereal everywhere too. And shoves his face in it. It's pretty funny.
I will send you my hard drive, albeit slightly altered, if you're willing to video yourself doing a flying elbow drop on it and post it on here