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From: rb <rb.5ca4a5@no.email.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Wipe hard disks
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:14:25 -0500
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Martyn Tindall;1338378 Wrote: 
> I've got three old Toshiba laptops that I want to throw away (Win 3.1,
> Win 95 and XP respectively).  Can anyone suggest a decent free
> programme I can use to wipe the hard disks?
> 
> Alternatively, it strikes me that it might be simpler to take the
> disks out and break them up - how does that sound?
> 
> TIA,
> -- 
> Martyn Tindall
> Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Harddrive and partition eraser utility--> www.killdisk.com/