Two words: Shop Magnet.
A few moments under one of the technicians monstrously powerful magnets and
the data is gone forever.
-----Original Message-----
From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Sytze de Boer
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 2:16 PM
To: profoxtech@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Format laptop harddrive
Apart from providing a great laugh from participants in this discussion, it
reminds me how a government IT man replaced our then prime minister's pc.
(mid nineties)
He then formatted the hard drive, and it went to the usual government "for
sale/tender" store.
Oh dear
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Jack Skelley
<JSkelley@newjerseydevils.com>wrote:
> Kent:
> Back in the day when VHS/Beta was the video of choice they made a video
> grade bulk eraser. Not the type that you may have used for a cassette tape
> but the heavy duty video eraser.
> If you can remove the cover to the drive and expose the platters to the
> bulk eraser you will find it will erase everything.
> You may not need to remove the cover for this to work with a strong enough
> magnetic field.
> If the drive is SATA us can then hook it up to a USB to SATA adapter and
> check it.
> But a very strong magnetic field should do the trick.
> Regards,
>
> Jack Skelley
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On
> Behalf Of Kent Belan [kbelan@mchsi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:22 PM
> To: profoxtech@leafe.com
> Subject: [NF] Format laptop harddrive
>
> Hello,
>
> The hard drive in my laptop was failing so HP sent me another hard drive
> under warranty.
>
> They want me to send back the hard drive that was failing.
>
> What is the best way for format or erase the drive before I send it back ?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
>
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:31 PM, david Smith <dsmith@doandelivers.com> wrote:
> Two words: Shop Magnet.
>
> A few moments under one of the technicians monstrously powerful magnets and
> the data is gone forever.
I'm not entirely convinced.
Have you ever played with the magnets inside a hard drive?
They're rare earth magnets, placed either side of the platter.
Seriously strong, especially in older drives. How they don't effect
the data on the drive I don't know.
Personally, I hammer a nail through the drive. Easy.
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Paul
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On 02/03/2011 04:31 p.m., david Smith wrote:
> Two words: Shop Magnet.
>
> A few moments under one of the technicians monstrously powerful magnets and
> the data is gone forever.
+1
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