I have a couple of old laptops lying around and want to throw them away, but have been cautious to do so because of privacy concerns of data still on the hard drives. What is the best way to wipe them? Or should I take them out and physically destroy them?

They are running windows vista and 10 I think.

  • ChainweaselEnglish
    1•6 months ago

    The only way to be 100% sure is to replace any and all hard drives and destroy the old ones.

    Edit: some reason I thought you were selling them not tossing them, there’s no need to replace the hard drives in that case, just remove them and destroy them