Toshiba Satellite U500 - Page 173

User’s Manual 9-7
Troubleshooting
Disposing of PC and PC batteries
nDiscard this PC in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. For
further information, contact your local government.
nThis PC contains rechargeable batteries. After repeated use, the batteries will
finally lose their ability to hold a charge and you will need to replace them.
Under certain applicable laws and regulation, it may be illegal to dispose of old
batteries by placing them in the trash.
nPlease be kind to our shared environment. Check with your local government
authority for details regarding where to recycle old batteries or how to dispose
of them properly. This product contains mercury. Disposal of this material
may be regulated due to environmental considerations. For disposal, reuse or
recycling information, please contact your local government.
nIf your hard disk or other storage media contains sensitive data, you should be
aware that standard deletion procedures do not remove data from the media.
These standard deletion procedures include:
nSelecting Delete for a target file
nPutting files in the Recycle Bin and emptying the Recycle Bin
nReformatting the media
nReinstalling an operating system from the recovery media
The procedures above delete only the initial part of the data used for file
management. This makes the file invisible to the operating system, but the
data can still be read by specialized utilities. If you dispose of the PC, please
delete all the data on its hard disk drive. Doing so prevents unauthorized use
of such data. To ensure your data is not used for unauthorized purposes, you
can:
nPhysically destroy the hard disk drive
nUse a proven specialized utility to overwrite all data
nTake the hard disk drive to a professional deletion service