What is the best way to destroy a laptop so that nothing on it is recoverable? - Asking for a friend obviously

Get a bucket of lava and dig out one block then pour the lava into the hole and drop the laptop into the lava it'll delete it and you cant get it back even with console commands
 
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Menotaur said:
Some people obviously have never watched "The Terminator".
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Shidoen said:
The fires of mount doom where your browser history was forged in.
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No dudes wrong movie

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Ok, so you are going to need:
  1. Laptop (ofc)
  2. Paperclip (only if you have a HDD)
  3. matches & Lighter Liquid
  4. Sledgehammer
  5. concrete area to do this at
So the first thing to destroy is your hardrive so turn off your laptop, REMOVE THE BATTERY, unscrew the bottom, grab your SSD or HDD and yoink it out. if you have a HDD, find a way to get inside the HDD and scratch the disc in it up. if you have a SSD or have already done the step for HDD users, look at the next step.

The 2nd thing is to grab your matches, lighter liquid, ssd or HDD and SledgeHammer. Go to your area (make sure it's concrete!) and slam the laptop and ssd/hdd onto it, hit them with the sledgehammer, sweep any parts that fly out into your pile o' parts, pour lighter liquid, light a match and then set the laptop & SSD/HDD on fire. If you forgot to remove the battery at this point, may Darwinism take you.
 
If you are at the point where you have to ask this, you are half fucked already.
Kosher Dill said:
Anyway, now that we've all got our thermite LARPs out of our system, how about a follow-up question.
How many people here have actually physically destroyed a drive, and how and why?

Bonus question: when was the first time you heard the thermite LARP? For me it was a computer teacher in high school telling us some yarn about hackers with "kill switches" on their desktop PCs that would "burn through" the hard drive with thermite if the feds came a-knocking.
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An encrypted usb flash drive that I was using as storage when I had to deal with some suspicious files, decided it was enough and to keep my peace of mind I extracted, it was fully encrypted beforehand because I know it's hard enough to fully delete stuff from flash devices. Opened it with some tweezers, removed the black memory chip from the green board and I cut it to pieces using some wire cutters.
Then threw it to the trash inside a cookie box.

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There is a procedure that covers this in Episode 3 of the web series The Broken. The show was made in 2003 but it should still work on modern laptops.
 
US DoD 5220.22-M wipe (3 pass, 1 pass of 0s, 1 pass of 1s, 1 pass of both 1 and 0 randomly and then verification) > smash platters > incinerate
 
Oh look, it's the seemingly required "the government can still get stuff off the drive", or "my dad works for the government and they have secret hard drive recovery dust that they can't publish the existence of" thread that seems like it is a rule that every site has to have.

DoD pass but even a zero-write and nothing is recoverable. Having shitty drive wipe software where it only does the first 1% to ruin the boot sector and calls it a day to advertise being "fast" does not count. You can't recover from a zero write or any kind of pass.

Source: It has never happened even one single time
 
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