When an old hard drive gets too old, small capacity or faulty to be of use, people often simply throw them away like ordinary rubbish. Today, however identity thieves and hackers can take that tatty old hard drive and turn it into a treasure trove which they can use to steal your credit card number, bank records, passwords and other personal information. This is one of the easiest and simplest methods of identity theft and it is so easily avoidable.
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It is very important then that you know how to properly and safely dispose of your non-working hard drive. There are three ways of hard drive disposal. It could be by file-by-file disposal, whole-drive disposal or physical destruction by power tools.
This involves erasing some files from the drive, only those which are important and sensitive. This is the way to go when you intend to donate the drive to someone you know. Contrary to popular belief, this entails more than throwing the files to the recycle bin. A data-shredding program may be employed for this. Such programs overwrite the data several times so that these files become inaccessible.
This also involves repeated overwriting of the data to the point of inaccessibility but encompassing the whole drive and not just selected files, very similar to reformatting.
This is the safest hard drive disposal method by far. Cruder methods we’ve seen include the use of power tools such as a drill, safety gloves and goggles for a DIY job. Simply drilling 4 holes in the circular disk so that it will not be able to spin anymore is often enough to ensure the data can no longer be accessed, but to be absolutely sure that your old data is disposed of safely and correctly, enlist the services of a data recovery professional like Kingdom Data Recovery who will arrange for your old hard drive to be industrially shredded FREE OF CHARGE. Once processed, nothing can be recovered from your old drive, providing the maximum protection against data and identity theft.
