Yeah, but if they're going to be used again for anything (there are
still people using them believe it or not), they'll need to be formatted
after degaussing them. Preferrable a full format to weed out bad disks.
Otherwise, I suppose you could just bust 'em apart and recycle the
outside plastic parts.
Trent Shipley wrote:
> But time consuming. I like the powerful permanent magnet idea.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net>
> *To:* plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> *Sent:* Mon, February 15, 2010 5:59:31 PM
> *Subject:* Re: degausser
>
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 17:47 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> >> My Mom wants to decommission all her old floppies.
> >>
> >> Is the tool you would use to do that called a "degausser"? Fry's said
> >> they didn't have a thingy to scramble the magnetic domains on floppies
> >> or tapes.
> > ----
> > a wipe with a very powerful magnet should be all that is needed for the
> > task
> >
> > Craig
>
> Or you could run the shred program against them.
>
> How sensitive is the data on them though, really? Doing a full format on
> them might be sufficient.
>
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