Serial number ending in A03AQ.

Used to work fine, haven't used in years.

HDA 02A
PCBA 02A
Unique 11A

(ahawkes)

Shredding takes a long time, so be prepared and patient.

Linux

On Ubuntu/Linux, it's a breeze. Just use shred.

sudo fdisk -l

sudo shred -fvn 3 /dev/DRIVE

Windows

On Windows, it was a little harder. I had a couple of computers that couldn't boot from my Ubuntu Live CD. So I removed the hard drives from the old computers and then attached them to this USB device that connects to my new Windows 7 laptop (ThinkPad Edge, from David Dion at Brick Computers in Ipswich, MA).

I tried to use shred or srm on cygwin but I couldn't find them in the cygwin repository.

I found it easiest to do a Quick Format of the drive first. That way you don't have to worry about the difference between shredding files vs. free space.

Heidi's Eraser had permissions problems that I couldn't (bother to) resolve.

I then found a reference to the "cipher" command on the web. Cipher has apparently been included in Windows for a very long time. Here's my command in Cygwin:

$ cipher /W:D:\\
To remove as much data as possible, please close all other applications while
running CIPHER /W.
Writing 0x00
......................................................................

Cipher does the "Writing" with 2 different characters and then a random series of characters (I think). The problem I have with cipher is that it is fairly cryptic--it really isn't very explicit about what it is doing, and seems to be an add-on to an app that has different functionality.

SDelete from Microsoft Sysinternals seems like a good tool.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx
My version of the SDelete.zip file download had sha256sum 0984beba7a5229f94d04dc62a5a48c36ce4483d1315356593d86fd741e365fb4

You should always check your hashes. Someone could have switched out the file with a hacked version. Heck, my version could have been hacked, because I Googled that long hash and it didn't appear on the web anywhere. So, I calculated the md5sum hash 012185d160417881a0ae92ded64f08d0 and found that in a couple of Asian websites--not very satisfying, but that's all we got.

The website states:

SDelete implements the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M, to give you confidence that once deleted with SDelete, your file data is gone forever.

C:\Users\Downloads\SDelete>sdelete.exe -p 3 -z D:

SDelete - Secure Delete v1.51
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

SDelete is set for 3 passes.
Cleaning free space on D:: 0%

C:\Users\Downloads\SDelete>sdelete.exe -p 3 -z D:

SDelete - Secure Delete v1.51
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

SDelete is set for 3 passes.
Free space cleaned on D:

They say TrueCrypt could work to encrypt the whole hard drive, but I'll have to look into that later.

The nuclear option is dban: http://www.dban.org/ Be careful with that one!

ID: "HM WS"

Windows 2000 Professional Sticker.

20 GB HDD
256 MB RAM
Intel Celeron (Coppermine) 1000 Mhz
128 KB Cache.

From: http://www.dell.com/downloads/us/products/optix/170L_spec.pdf
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with 800MHz or 533MHz front side bus and 1MB L2 cache
Intel 865GV chipset
2 DIMM slots; Non-ECC dual channel shared1 DDR400 or DDR3332 SDRAM system memory up to 2GB using 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB modules
4Mb Flash memory for system BIOS, set-up, Plug-and-Play, DMI 2.0s (Optional) and SMBIOS 2.3.1
Embedded Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Enhanced IDE ATA 6.0 40GB 7200RPM ATA/100
Embedded PCI dual channel/connector, bus mastering ATA/100; 1 SATA connector
Intel 10/100Mbps Ethernet with Remote Wake-up and PXE support
Integrated AC97 codec
USB 2.0 (2-front, 4-back), Serial, Parallel, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, RJ-45, VGA out (or external video), stereo line-in (minijack), microphone-in (minijack), speakers/line-out (minijack) and headphone (minijack - front)
µATX micro-tower; vertical orientation (HxWxD), 36.8 x 18.4 x 42.6 cm (14.5 x 7.25 x 16.75 inches);
weight (includes 1-HDD, CD-ROM, FDD) ~10.4kg; (~23lbs); one external 3.5" drive bay, two external 5.25"
peripheral bays, two internal 3.5" drive bays, 3 PCI slots (4.2"H x 6.95"L)

(Internal Note: From H&M.)

After phutzing with the laptop for a couple of hours, it works fine with an external USB keyboard and mouse. I haven't re-tested the "bad" RAM module yet. (Upgrading it to Ubuntu Natty now...)

Latitude D800
Model No. PP02X

Cat spilled water on keyboard. Apparently, one of the memory modules is now bad, and many keys on the keyboard are no longer responsive. Battery has long been at only 30% capacity.

Taken apart fairly carefully. Screws in ziplock bag.

1GB RAM working (was 2GB RAM; bad module will be included in package).

Has trackpoint.

BIOS Revision A11

Pentium M.

15.4" UXGA monitor

60 GB HDD

$ less /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 600.000
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips : 1196.18
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M GeForce FX Go5200 64M (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx Controller
02:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware Loading Function
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)

Needs 10-30VDC 1A Max positive pin power adapter. (Doubt we have one, but we can look if you need.)