On 10/02/2010 Brian Smith wrote: > But I wouldn't send them with the hard drives in. Always before, I've > removed and trashed hard drives and then recycled the old machine - > but these are both very usable still. >
problem is you then create a £30+ cost to the recipient to source a hard drive and, in the case of Windows, an OS licensing or cost issue. Using one of the many secure software hard disk wipers is a better approach IMHO but still leaves the OS issue - a tech savvy PC "donor" ought really to restore the OS to match the license on the box or put a nice Linux distro on it :-) Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
