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Proper Disposal of Legacy Dell Laptops
Good Morning,
I have two legacy laptops, first one from 2000, and second one from 2003:
Dell Inspiron 5000e
Intel Pentium III processor
597 MHz
128 MB of RAM
Dell Latitude X200
Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III
CPU – M 800 MHz
797 MHz, 376 MB of RAM
For each system please explain
1. How to locate the hard-drive
2. How to remove the hard-drive
3. Best way to destroy the hard-drive (i.e. with a hammer)
4. How to dispose the remaining laptop
Last month I purchased:
Dell Inspiron 1545 (Ubuntu 9.04)
Intel Core 2 DUO T6600
2.2GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache
4GB, DDR2, 800MHz 2 Dimm
Next week, I am hoping to purchase Mini 10v with Ubuntu Moblin to take to work, running errands, etc.
Thank you in advance
ejn63
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December 1st, 2009 03:00
Both of those are potentially useable by someone - consider wiping them clean (see below) and donating them to a local charity if they're in working condition. If they're not,
The 5000e:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pblan/removing.htm#customer
The X200:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latx200/sm_en/hdd.htm#1084976
to wipe a hard drive clean use
http://www.killdisk.com/
MyMyselfAndI
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December 3rd, 2009 14:00
Thanks for the references, I'll try it out this weekend
Mary G
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December 3rd, 2009 14:00
For computer recycling for those that are no longer usable, go Here.