Haha! Love it man Welcome to SMF! I have a copy of ERD commander for passwords, it's old but still works on all I've tried. Need to locate my Acronis for cloning some of the newer systems(in the past i've usually just used a manufacturers disk). I prefer the low level format too, or even use a Partition Magic to change the file structure a time or two.
I think in your case the simple pull and sort would work best for time's sake, all that trimming and such is iffy at best from what I've read here. I broke down over 20 old old dot matrix printers today, just grabbing the boards, print heads, and transformers, and snapping them back together with most of the metal still in there, hoping to get by with mixing them in with the computer cases. Printers, I think most guys(or gals) here just grab the cartridges and toss in the shred(light metals) pile, but it'll need be a good mix of mostly metal.
Thanks for the tip on the Dell rescue(glad I saved a copy), need to try that
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