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Protect the data on your computer before repair or disposal

To ensure compliance with software license agreements and with federal and state statutes associated with personally identifiable information, you must properly remove or destroy data on hard drives and other storage devices before giving away or repairing a machine. Deleting is not enough.

See the surplus property site for the process required for destroying data before surplusing equipment.