After making a proper backup copy of the wallet.dat, if you want to make sure you won't have headaches in the (probably far) future, you
may want to completely wipe out wallet.dat.
Doing this will make it unrecoverable, hence you will be able to scrape/sell that HDD at some point.
I recommend
SDelete, since it's made by a company that was bought by Microsoft, hence you can be sure nothing shady goes on.