Community weekly poll: What do you do with your old hard drive?
- 6/8/05 2:00 PM
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by LinuxSux - 6/10/05 9:30 AM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Take it to the range and put numerous holes of various calibers into it. Fun!
I take mine out. . .
by techtype - 6/10/05 9:48 AM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I take mine out for a long drive in a car to a target range and put a target on it and use it for target practice.
Physically destroy!
by microbabydad - 6/10/05 10:33 AM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Not only is it fun to take things apart, but destroying a HD is good therapy! I pull the discs out, scratch them with various things, then bend and break them into a few pieces. That's the only way I know to keep others from getting my personal info, and I end up with some good magnets and a few spare screws.
Backup System disk
by jluchford - 6/10/05 10:38 AM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use the OLD drive to Clone the System disk in case of catastrophic drive failure in order to keep all Windows settings and registry information without having to re-install all the Software. Then I unplug the drive and leave it in an unused drive bay. If I have the time, I will update the drive clone when I update the System and install new software.
what to do with that old hard drive
by jw1ls5n0129 - 6/10/05 11:46 AM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
as I never had any trouble with the old hard drive and, the reason for an other was that it is only a 40GB,so why should I change it ? mine is master with the XP on the drive and I never have trouble to go back to factory settings and the old drive works very well .the new 160GB is the slave ,nothing wrong with the way I work,and it does for me. Yohan 129
old hard drive
by tom elkins - 6/10/05 12:13 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If the hard drive is still good, then format it and use it as a secondary drive. What you do sometimes depends upon how old the hard drive is? Sometimes the old hard drives are small drive 300-500 MG and slow, with the price and size of drives today it is usually better to just buy a new one (If your system will support it).
thanks
What to do with your old hard drive.
by lambstudio - 6/10/05 12:14 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Buy a hard drive enclosure with a USB connection. You will automatically access data.
Acceptable data security measures
by J. Bondde - 6/10/05 12:27 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I find that a few M-80s does the trick and ensures data security on the decomissioned HDD excellently. Just make sure to dodge the shrapnel; hot disk shards make for a nasty experience. And yes, the magnets are fun, too.
~Blow stuff up! It's good for you!~
What do you do with your old hard drive?
by deRaven - 6/10/05 12:48 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I save the hard drive and use it to pull ALL personal data, ie., email and address books, favorites, pics, files, etc. and any other such data as may be required to transfer. Then I format the drive and test it with the appropriate had drive test program. I then label it with a sticky and on that sticky, I put the date it was formatted, format type, and any other data that may be important at that particular time. Along with which drive it was in my computer ( this one has 7 active hard drives ). I have a desk in which I store unused hard drives ( in static proof bas. ), sorted by size and format type.
OLD PESKY HARD DRIVES
by jappy - 6/10/05 2:19 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
They make Excelent Shooting Targets. Some will not let a .45 bullet pass through them, although a 30 ot 6 makes a nice hole.
LOL, I like it....
by trekker75 - 6/10/05 10:57 PM In reply to: OLD PESKY HARD DRIVES by jappyJappy maybe you meant a 30.06 makes a nice hole?? 
I keep it and use it as the master.
by gblayne - 6/10/05 2:29 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I left my little 20gb hard drive in when I aded the new one as it had the os on it.I made the new one a slave without the os so I could put firefox on there and not have to worry about bad things getting into my os. It has worked great so far!
Who Says It's Broken?
by jjprzy - 6/10/05 2:36 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The last time I bought a new hard drive, there was nothing wrong with with my existing hard drive. I left the good 40GB hard drive as my C: drive (master) and used the new 200GB hard drive as my slave drive. I partitioned the new slave drive as follows....
1) first partition = 40GB (used to duplicate my existing C: drive). It's bootable so that if the existing C: drive crashes, I just boot up on the first partition of the new hard drive. This requires me to regularly update the first partition of the new drive to make sure I am pretty well synched with my existing C: drive. (Since my computer is not used for business purposes, I'm not too worried if the 2 drives are not synched EXACTLY).
2) second partition = 10 GB (used for swap file and Temporary Internet Cache files). Since the new 200GB hard drive is running at 7200RPM versus 5400RPM for my old C: drive, I use the newer, faster hard drive for my swap file and internet cache. This speeds up access time and frees up some space on my old hard drive.
3) third partition = 40 GB (used for backing up a 40 GB hard drive on a second home computer). I have two home computers on a local network accessing the internet through a router. I can back up the second, older computer to this partition on the newer computer.
4) fourth partition = 110 GB (used for miscellaneous data and back-up images from both computers). Plenty of space here to store music files, image files, video files, and back-up image files of both computers (I use Acronis True Image).
There may be better ideas out there, but this seems to work for me.
Laptop HD will travel!
by jmbrinck - 6/10/05 3:44 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've upgraded a few laptops with much larger capacity hard drives, using a fairly cheap facility to copy all contents of the old HD onto the new one before installing it. Then--instead of trashing the old HD I wipe it clean, put it in one of those slick, inexpensive enclosures that has USB interface and voila! I have a portable storage drive. Small, sleek, more space than any flash drive I've seen (6GB in my case) and I can use it on any of my PC's. Just a thought. jb
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by miztrniceguy - 6/10/05 5:20 PM In reply to: What do you do with your old hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
dismantled it and threw away the parts in diffrent places
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