**bev!** @TonicBH@computerfairi.es · Jan 28, 2018, 16:31

**bev!** @TonicBH@computerfairi.es · Jan 28, 2018, 16:31

bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es

I just tried for about a half hour to remove an old hard drive from my last PC which I last used in 2014.

Couldn't get it out.

Honestly I'm not gonna bother further because it's probably gonna end up in a landfill somewhere.

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · 2018-01-28T16:39:17Z

Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@TonicBH If you're decommissioning it then don't worry about breaking the rest of it

It's a perfect excuse to get the big fun tools out, like oxy-acetylene torches and sledgehammers

**bev!** @TonicBH@computerfairi.es · Jan 28, 2018, 16:55

**bev!** @TonicBH@computerfairi.es · Jan 28, 2018, 16:55

bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es

@troubleMoney the intent is my dad wants to like, put it out on the curb or something.

I think I might have to persuade him that nobody wants an 11-year-old PC.

(I don't want to keep it, but I'd rather just give it to a computer shop for parts or to Goodwill where they can just wipe it.)

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Jan 28, 2018, 16:57

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Jan 28, 2018, 16:57

Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@TonicBH ah, in that case just using the shred command would suffice

Far less fun though