How to Really Erase a CD

02/12/2010
If you really don't want someone getting data off your CDs... This is how you can make it impossible for even the most advanced methods to read your old CDs. Notice: Do it in a box like I did, or the remnants will go EVERYWHERE... And a CD moving at some 12000+ RPM (no joke) is not something you want to get in the way of ;-)

Grab an old CDROM drive, rip it apart (the piece used here was pulled from one of the CD drives in a previous video, "Deconstruction of Two Optical Drives") - I had to solder on some wire to the motor terminals, then grab a 12 volt power supply, or actually just about anything that provides more than 5 volts (any less and it really won't get going very fast), hook it up, grab a screwdriver or knife, and attack the data side of the disc (the part you write on, not the shiny side!). Watch it fly apart, hehehe.