How to flatten my old computer

I have an old computer that has loads of stuff on it both financial & business.
It's not connected to the internet and I want to permanently delete all files or flatten it beyond retrieval before I get rid.
Has anyone any idea, ideally suited for an idiot of how to do this?
Ta
Sean
PS I know I can hit it with a hammer but it's the data I want mashed not the metal particularly...


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I too am not computer savvy but I believe unless a hardrive disc is destroyed/shattered/smashed/melted, some data could still be forensically retrieved (not all 4 methods, just one of them).

 

Yes. My brother is an IT guy and that's what he does - takes the drive and smashes it.

 

Hard drive out. Hammer.

 

Some hard drives shatter when bashed with a hammer and others I think are aluminium and need to be cut up. Even info that a program says it cannot be retrieved infact can, permanent delete=destruction. .

 

Use a tool like active@kill disk to wipe it first

 

...or an angle grinder...

 

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Remove hard drive and drill holes in it.

 

Or simply give it to my missus. Any piece of high technology will cease to function three minutes after she lays her hands on it.

 

Chuck it into the middle of a body of water. Nobody will ever know.
Do you have a woodburner, fire it up and all your sin will burn with it but remember, the 'dark web' knows the colour of your *******

 

Yep hard drive out and see how it works and then smack it to smithereens...

 

Get a mini incinerator for £8 and stick it in there.

 

Wee on it. Then post it to a random address in Northampton.

 

Beware the magnet fishermen though.......they might find it

 

Why scrap it?

There are people in Nigeria who would pay good money for your old hard drive!

 

Yep, if you delete it but I think that you can write over and flatten it. Just don't know how

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That's what worries me!

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Take it to a hipster cafe. They'll spread jam on the platters and serve them ironically.