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How do you disable the hard drive to your old computer before you recycle it?
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∙ 18y ago
The old computers need to have the harddisk heads "parked" before the computer is recycled. Otherwise, the heads could hit the magnetic surface, and then a couple of clusters are compromised. Old computer means older than a 80286. If your computer is older than that, you need to park the heads before shutting down. Otherwise, the heads will automatically be parked. The operation is done by running a program. Depending on the operating system version, there are some programs, but usually their name is park.com and spark.com (notice .com - indeed this stuff is for very old computers) After the program is invoked, a message like "the heads are now parked, you can shut down the computer" will be displayed.
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