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Well that's true but I meant just putting the disk in the blender, not the whole enclosure. I figured with some of the stuff I've seen that blender blend into dust on youtube, the disk might not be a problem.

That seems like an interesting idea. There are only 2 bulk tape erasers I can see on amazon though and they are both, as expected by the name, for tapes. So it doesn't look like a HDD disc would even fit into the slot. Here's my idea that I'm not sure if is possible yet. Remove the disk and put it in my friends Blendtec blender (the one that can blend ipads and stuff). I am just wary if it will work or not I don't know how tough the disks are, don't want to break my buddy's $400 blender

Thanks. I guess I will physically destroy it then. I was planning on chucking it anyways. Would you happen to know the best way to do so? There are conflicting methods on google. Some say drilling, some say sandpaper, magnets, hammer, etc.

As far as I'm aware, data is still very easily recovered after a simple normal format using as little as a simple program found on the web. That is why I'm trying to do a very complex 35x overwrite. Please tell me if I'm wrong but this is what I've heard countless times. I am looking to completely destroy any and all data from the HD. The Dban software looks promising and more like what I'm searching for although on the main page it states no guarantees of erasure so I'm not sure how trustworthy it can be

I didn't know it was a gimmick. I'm looking for a hard drive wiper / destroyer. Anyways I did a very complex (35x overwrite) using the FULL erase option as that's what I'm looking to do. I loaded up CCcleaner this morning as soon as I woke up and tried starting a complex one (7x) and it started (started before I read the first post sorry), so now it's running. Looking like it's going to take almost a day which I can deal with better than 4 days I suppose. Not sure if you guys might have any better advice for me for what I'm trying to do?

Hello, I tried begin a very complex wipe of a 1 tb drive and when I saw that it could take days I canceled it with intentions of doing just a complex wipe. However now when I try to start the complex wipe, it gave me an error that said something about the drive not having a file system, so I tried a second time and now it is saying There's an invalid parameter. Does anyone know what I can do?