degausser

[Eric Shubert]

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.
> 
> 
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> *From:* Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
> *To:* plug-discuss at 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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