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Sanitizing a hard drive?
Drez
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No, not that kind of sanitizing.
CRC 05103 QD Electronic Cleaner -11 Wt Oz
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000BXOGNI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_oWHLFb3VRT4VH
Is this safe for hard drives? I want to clean a bunch of internal hard drives I’m trying to look at the long-forgotten contents of. Note: I ended that sentence with a preposition on purpose.
CRC 05103 QD Electronic Cleaner -11 Wt Oz
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000BXOGNI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_oWHLFb3VRT4VH
Is this safe for hard drives? I want to clean a bunch of internal hard drives I’m trying to look at the long-forgotten contents of. Note: I ended that sentence with a preposition on purpose.
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That's not really possible. And while this was meant to solve my problems around germophobia, I have equally bad problems with chemophobia. So the idea of having to use a face mask and a splash guard, neither of which I have, in a neighborhood not conducive to doing what you're suggesting to apply the contents of a $5 bottle of chemicals just to pull data off a hard drive that I was worried might be germ infested is kind of a balance between two phobias. I guess I'll take the germs in this case.
How can I safely dispose of this, lol.
I wish I could have caught it in time to refuse delivery or cancel it. Hopefully I can just chuck it in the dumpster outside without accidentally causing any damage to the neighborhood.
My professional instinct when I’m see a new substance is to check the SDS (used to be called MSDS) I wasn’t trying to mess with your OCD.
On the flip side when I see an SDS that is light on warnings I assume the product isn’t going to work very well.
On the plus side, it’s probably aluminum and plastic which is anti-microbial. So any dirt is likely oil, grease or dust.
Just let it dry before
No, it probably shouldn't go into municiple waste.
But, yeah, to clean your electronics that aren't powered on, you just want mostly pure ipa or ethanol.
1) I saw it was inexpensive so I just pulled the trigger without thinking, assuming the worst that could happen is that it's ineffective.
2) I just went through a MASSIVE sanitation effort in my bedroom over the past 4-5 days. Built new furniture, put down carpet, reorganized my room, cleaned everything, etc. Painstaking. The "cleaning the hard drives" thing wasn't a huge thing and literally had nothing to do with COVID, it was just that I didn't even want new microbes of dust and whatever else reintroduced into my semi-sterile room.
3) I'm afraid that if I talk a therapist they will help me get over more neuroses, which scares me. I have healophobia. That may or may not be a joke. I mean, I get it, I sound like a crazy person, but I absolutely know that and I know therapists exist, but that's not going to help me dispose of this chemical or make me more comfortable in the short term as I don't even have a therapist at the moment.
4) What about ethanol? I literally still can't find isopropyl, 70% or 99%. I haven't seen isopropyl in 5-6 months now. I think the local drugstores gave up on trying to stock it. Ethanol seems pretty plentiful, though. I have bottles of 75% ethanol "hand sanitizer." It's basically just ethanol diluted with water.
5) I just want to get rid of this bottle. This is so annoying. I now may have to literally walk to the next town to dispose of a $5 bottle of flammable whatever because I am an idiot and purchased something without paying attention. Yay. I also can't find concrete info about household hazardous waste disposal and at least one place says that a car is required due to COVID, which I don't have. And I don't want to explain to an Uber driver that I need to put some hazardous waste in his trunk.
Just saw this.
Good point. I can just throw it in the closet for now.
1) No worries, happens to the best of us.
2) That strikes me as kind of across the border where talking to someone becomes a good idea to look into?
3) Not sure what healophobia is unless you're talking about heliophobia? But in that case I'm not sure how that translates to therapy?
4) It's not great for cleaning electronics as others have mentioned.
5) I sort of feel like it's best to forget the bottle and lets go back to #2. Drez I've been around you for well over a decade now. I'm no medical professional but it feels like you've been developing issues/had issues exacerbating for well over a year or so now. I say this with nothing but love but please consult with a doctor and/or a therapist. I like you my dude, and I wish there was more that I could do for you but I can't so please please talk to some professionals who might be able to help you out.
I appreciate that. To be honest, these issues have been here for well over a decade, I just haven't really talked about it all too much and I kind of poke fun at my own OCD so when you see me write something that makes it sound like I'm painting myself into a corner with my own germaphobia, it's almost definitely always an absurd exaggeration. Maybe that's not the best way to communicate, but the way I approached this thread was I really just wanted to know what kind of cleanser I could safely (meaning non-destructively) use on my hard drives. The why is not something I put any thought into at all - as far as I was concerned, it was just setting.
That said, I appreciate the sentiments. And "healophobia" is a word I made up - don't know if it actually is a word, though I doubt it. Healophobia = fear of being healed, in my joke-mind.