Re: HDD Platter Removal


"TwistyCreek" <anon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:QBQ95E3N38710.5078935185@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> dnss wrote:
>
> > After the platters are removed from the hdd how can the data be
recovered?
>
> Actually, that's the best/only way to recover *some* data. Slap the
> platers in specialized equipment that isn't hindered by the lack of
> sensitivity and timing problems of consumer grade hardware, and suck every
> nybble right off a drive that's been "DOD Wiped" or some such nonsense.
>
> Professional data recovery folk routinely use clean rooms to disassemble
> and recover drives this way.
>
>
>

The rumor mill lives on. (especially is newsgroups!)

Please provide complete FACTUAL details of the process and equipment used to
recover data from a hdd platter via an external method.

Your statement re DR companies working in clean rooms is factual as well as
disassembly of hdd's.





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