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 <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *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. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To subscribe, u nsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
