how many harddrives are being disposed of in washington?
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Mmm....Well from what I have heard the hard drives are in the north south east west region of D.C..\n We know where the hard drives are located, but suspect that the Republicans are going to smuggle them out of the city through either Maryland or Virginia,, ........either state has been "friendly" with Republicans before.
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If you have something that you want gone permanently then you have to write over it at least four times by using programs such as KillDisk or any other programs that write all zeros to your hard drive four layers down.  Even then it is recoverable but very long expensive process.   The department of defence approves of the security of drives that have been written over four times.
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Try this web site: http://golocalnet.net/drive/
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My former employer used to donate old PC's to local ROP (Regional Occupational Program) non-profits, who would recondition them, or strip them for parts.  They were then used to retrain the unemployed for new careers.
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De-fragment your hard drive.
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make sure they are not stored on a removable drive and aren't in hidden or readonly folders
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first off 3 gb is a bit on the small side so you could move the files to a second hard drive. \ncompressing files is an option. another is removing some programs.
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To format the hard drive before you dispose of it (ie get rid of all the data stored on it) get a magnet and rub it across the disk (silver part in the second image in the link below). This should erase all data on it.\n\nGOOGLE IMAGE RESULTS FOR HARD DRIVE:\nhttp://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=hard+drive&btnG=Search\n\nHope this Helps!
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Send them via email to someone who has a burner.  It will be time consuming . . .  You could get an Iomega Zip drive, they are laying around everywhere in offices these days, as nobody uses them much anymore.  (100 and 250 Meg drives)\nYeehaw!  A 1999 trick for 2006.
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You delete/unistall stuff that's on your harddrive that you don't even use.
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They are probably gone for good.  You could use some special software or pay someone lots of money to look through your hard drive, but chances are they have been written over by now.
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I use a free program called CCleaner (for "crap cleaner") which removes the browser cache (while giving you the option to save the cookies that you actually want), empties the recycle bin and gets rid of other junk on the hard drive, and does all of this faster than Windows Disk Cleanup.  I think it makes a big difference.
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http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/di.asp\n\nthis is a list of many drives in's in the state.  Getty Drive In is listed there.
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You will probably have to clean the harddrive and then reformat it. It has like 15 registry lines and if you miss one, it comes back.
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The 7 gig disk was probably formatted with a 2 gig partition. Using an utility you could recover the other 5
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Maybe your hard drive needs to be de-fragged?
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Buy a program that "bleaches" the hard drive space.  Simply formatting the drive still leaves data retrievable, it's just not seen by Windows.