Wipe hard drive without USB or CD ROM?

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I have an old WinXP laptop I want to send to recycling. To do that, I need to wipe the hard drive. However:

CD drive is broken.
BIOS does not support boot from USB.

What do I do?
 
If recycling doesn't require the laptop to have a hard drive (why should they anyway), then remove it and destroy it.
 
I have an old WinXP laptop I want to send to recycling. To do that, I need to wipe the hard drive. However:

CD drive is broken.
BIOS does not support boot from USB.

What do I do?

Typically old laptops that didn't boot from USB had floppy drives.
Yours have one?

Optional:
Take the drive out and connect it to a machine that has what you need
to nuke it. May be able to do this via USB to IDE/SATA cable.
 
Pull the HDD and use an adapter to plug it into a machine w/ a working CD/USB Boot
 
remove hdd and call it a day. prolly ide drive and in order to use it you would have to get an external enclosure that supports IDE or get a ide adapter so you can plug it into your desktop if it has an ide port
 
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