How Do We Go About Disposing Of An Old Desktop Computer?
You can throw it in the trash if you want. There are different ways to make the data on your harddrive unreadable. If the computer is not going to be reused, you can use a hammer on the harddrive. If it will be reused, there is special software that can delete all of the data. Reformatting the harddrive is usually good enough, but there is software out there that can recover data from even a reformatted harddrive. The link below has some suggestions for software. It also has suggestions for how to dispose of the computer in a ecofriendly manner. Many of the components can be broken down and recycled. I hope this helps.
