Re: Failed Hard Drive
From: Michael Pelletier (mjpelletier_at_mjpelletier.com)
Date: 05/17/05
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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:26:03 -0700
--- wrote:
> Apparently the hard drive is beyond repair.
>
> The technician had me go into bios and no hard drive was detected. I have
> used software to scrub a drive before, but that won't work in this case.
>
> "nemo_outis" <abc@xyz.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9658D4B749FA8abcxyzcom@127.0.0.1...
>> Michael Pelletier <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> wrote in
>> news:xDcie.44$Wo.14@fed1read03:
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>>> nemo_outis wrote:
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>>>> "---" <no@spam.com> wrote in news:KU9ie.1380224$6l.107372@pd7tw2no:
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>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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>>>>> I have a laptop that had a hard drive containing sensitive material.
>>>>>
>>>>> The hard drive has failed ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ah...how is he supposed to do that when the dirve no worky worky????
>>> Don't think software is a solution there chief...
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>>
>> How adroitly you leap to conclusions. The original poster stated only
>> that
>> the drive had failed, not the nature of the failure (perhaps only a noisy
>> bearing?). It is by no means clear that the drive was unwritable.
>>
>> However, it was not by accident that I included the disjunctive "or" in
>> my
>> post. If multiple overwriting of the drive is not feasible for any
>> reason,
>> it hould be destroyed. Degaussing is unlikely to be effective and there
>> is
>> no practical way of confirming its effectiveness. Unless one is
>> satisfied to run blind and naked, this will not do.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
I would look at it like this. If the info on the disk is sensitive but not
really ciritcal I would try degaussing it. If you have critical (ie bank
statements, etc) on it. I would destroy the drive by taking it apart and
chucking it in a river...That is my take.
Michael
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