[Gllug] [O/T] Disposing of old zip disks

James Hawtin oolon at ankh.org
Fri Aug 14 10:28:07 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:59:44AM +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> I no longer have access to any means of writing to them, so reformatting
> is not an option. Has anyone any other suggestions for disposing of the
> disks than taking a hammer to them? There's only a few dozen, so I'm
> not sure any of the data disposal companies would be interested without
> me paying an exorbitant price,

It took me an hour to do 50 of my Aunt's zip disks. I just snapped them in
half took the magnetic disk out of all them then cut the disks up with
sissors, 10 at a time.

James
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