Dead screen - how to wipe the drive before recycling?

The display on my MBR 15" (circa 2007) is dead. The local genius bar thinks it's in the inverter. Flashing the PRAM does not help. I'd like to wipe the drive before I try to recycle it. While I can boot the machine fine, and then push the display to a second VGA screen, I can't seem to boot from the install disk and view it on the second screen so that I can use the Disk Util to wipe the disk. I'm looking for help in overcoming the boot display or how to successfully wipe the drive.
Am I pretty much down to target disk mode and obtaining a firewire cable to see the drive from another Mac?
Thanks

Albert Patzke wrote:
Only sure fire 100% way to ensure hard drive wipe is to remove the hard drive from the computer and beat h*ll out of it with a hammer. *Break into so many pieces that all the kings horses and all the kings men can't put that hard drive together again.*
Humpty Dumpty Solution!

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