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Disposal of Old External Drives
I have some old external drives that contain mainly p*rn, a few family pics, but more worryingly derogatory comments I made about my relatives.
I do not know which drive this material is on and probably because they are old I cannot get them to work using Windows 7 and get errors even trying to access the drives. I am not prepared to pay someone to recover the data even if this were possible.
Which leads me to disposal.In the past with drives I have removed all the screws,sometimes the platter explodes into tiny pieces but all this is a laborious process.
Would it be possible to use a drill with a metal bit and drill say three holes into each drive as surely this would make data recovery impossible or are "ordinary" metal bits not suitable for this process ?