We know that physical hard drive harm is good way to make sure that files never gets to wrong people. Though, modern data recovery tools enable to obtain data off even the severe physically injured hard drives. Removing data by deleting files and reformatting hard disk is not sufficient, but, reformatting is safer than removing files. There is safer way and that is using Windows disk cleaning tool. Despite, a PC specialist enables to rebuild all data that was on disk earlier than reformatting. Here explained how to kill a hard drive after clean the drive.

There are many methods to kill hard drive before throwing it; you must know what you are dealing with. Now we start

Instructions

1. Step 1

On each Windows operating system comes with a disk cleaning tool. There are three methods to access the disk cleaning tool. Though, using this utility tool is time consuming if you have many files and programs on disk.

Method 1: Go to "Start" and then select "Run". Type cleanmgr in the box.

Click OK. Put a checkmark in boxes beside items that want to delete. Click OK. When asked to verify, tick OK again.

Method 2: Go to "My Computer" icon or on Windows Explorer menu. Right-tick the disk in which you want to clean and then select "Properties". Opt "General" tab on dialog window. Click "Disk Cleanup". Put a checkmark in boxes beside the items that want to delete. Click OK. When asked to confirm, tick OK.

Method 3: Go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup. Do checkmark in boxes beside the items that want to delete. Click OK. When asked to confirm, tick OK.

2. Step 2

Take out hard drive from PC. Remove and disassemble the hard drive until you obtain platters; disks. It is on these platters that data is saved. Take some big magnets and wipe on platters, do it many times to ensure that platters get sufficient disclosure.

3. Step 3

Make some scratches on platter surface using screwdriver. Destroy the platters with a hammer or crush the platters to dust with a grinder. If using a grinder, initially fix the platters with vice on a safe surface to ensure they won't move. Turn hard disk and hard drive into dust is definite way not to have it recreated.

4. Step 4

Collect shattered platter parts and put them in a paper bag. Enclose paper bag in a plastic bag and remove in trash. If a PC recycling skill exists near you, take the saved parts there in its place.

Most honest PC recycling facilities will grind HD/HDD to dust for you, free; they have special machines to do the work. But to be on safer side, you want to delete data from disk as many as possible before bringing it for demolition.