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 Mar 15 2009, 12:00 AM
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This post has been edited by scff249: Mar 15 2009, 12:00 AM -------------------- Posting lurker of bleepingcomputer.com
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Mar 15 2009, 06:06 AM
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QUOTE(scff249 @ Mar 15 2009, 10:30 AM)  Will a microwave or a powerful magnet work? A good hammer will work fine.   
-------------------- Victory of Mind over Matter
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Mar 15 2009, 07:06 AM
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Er... that's why I said to fill the entire drive with 00's BEFORE using the recovery disks.
-------------------- Computer dinosaur, servicing PC's since 1976
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Mar 15 2009, 11:50 PM
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Indecisive Lurker Group: Members Posts: 1,232 Joined: 14-February 08 From: A galaxy far, far away... Member No.: 190,231 |
But I like my explosive fun
 Okay, so maybe that applies only to a microwave. If both of those things can work, then I'll choose that over just pure destruction (as I can then recycle them instead of putting them into a landfill). If not, then I'll have no choice but to go with pure destruction, then hopefully see if I can put it through a recycling center. -------------------- Posting lurker of bleepingcomputer.com
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Mar 22 2009, 10:10 AM
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I think a powerful magnet would work. It should scramble all those 1s and 0s in all kinds of goofy ways. I think that is what a drive scrubber does; make a mess of the 1s and 0s. You would have to check the drive by hooking it up as a slave drive. Keeps sounding like a hammer is the best bet. Some day the hammer will end up in a land fill so it all comes around.
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May 7 2009, 09:53 PM
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Short of the hammer method, remember the old bulk tape erasers? The only true ferromagnetic
components of a modern HD are the platters, bearings, pole pieces, rotors (armatures) voice coil laminates and fasteners. Even @ 60 Hz, you can induce enough EMF potential into the electronics to destroy any CMOS junction, which ceases to exist at about 5.8 volts. Takes about 25 seconds for the board to smoke, once you let the smoke come out of something, shows over, Curtain, Enter presents dancing! Ultimately The Sledge Hammer Guy is right, I want to see the episode of CSI where they have fragments of a platter on the light table, the illuminated magnifier tweezers and bottle of Elmer's..... Just wait Grissom I'll get it! -------------------- "When The Going Gets Weird The Weird Turn Pro" Hunter S. Thompson
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May 8 2009, 08:47 AM
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I still have a magnet from an old IBM 3370 DASD (direct access storage device) {huge hard drive}, it came from the voice coils. It's about the size of a brick, maybe a little larger. Is that strong enough to to wipe it?
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May 8 2009, 09:48 PM
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If you were going to sell it/give it away, I'd DBAN it.
But if you're keeping it for yourself, a microwave creates a pretty light show 
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May 19 2009, 04:21 PM
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eh a hammer is too much work... you know how hard it is to find a hammer at my place
just shake it from side to side a few times that will take care of it its worked for me in the past |
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Jun 10 2009, 03:32 AM
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Would coiling a large amount of wire around the H/D and hooking up a 12 volt car battery with a load create a magnetic field that would create such a mess that it would take forever and a day to put it back in order.
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