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Old 08-05-2024, 08:04 PM
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What is the safest way to dispose of non-working laptops that may contain financial data on hard drives? Can computers shops be trusted? Don't want to get in a situation like a "certain politician's" son did. When I was working, I would remove the drives and put them in one of the hydraulic presses at work.

When I had my stump grinder it made quick work of it. Now I remove hard drive and memory cards smash them. I would never take it to some the says they destroy them if I done any online transactions.