Originally Posted by
Landing Gear
If you want to throw away an old laptop computer (my city has no electronics recycling program), is removing the hard disk sufficient to prevent identity and data theft?
If it works, can't you do a restore and give it away. Doesn't restoring reformat the hard drive? Better yet, delete the partition and then do a restore. What kind of laptop is it? Or keep the hard drive and give the laptop away! I will take it even without the hard drive.