A word to the wise before tossing that computer
<Erase that disk drive!
And that doesn't mean just going in and "erasing" the files. The only thing that does is wipe the file markers and give the system permission to overwrite the data. If the data is not overwritten later, it's all still there, and recoverable by even a rank amateur (like me.)
There are many utilities that will "wipe" a disk, which is done by overwriting the data space with meaningless data, usually the value "00." My version of Norton Utilities gives me the option of a "military-class" wipe, which writes three different hex values over the space and then verifies it.