how to erase defective hard drives

[badkuk]

suggestions naman. we've accumulated quite a number of them here in the office, pero di namin madispose 'coz they do contain sensitive company data.

short of melting the darn things down, is there a way to really really make sure that the data is erased? would running them through a very strong magnet work?

[driven]

unconditional format will erase the data forever...

[nugundam93]

you can use debug. just boot up to a command prompt with a disc containing debug.

*** This will destroy all data on the hard drive! No kidding! **

--F 200 L1000 0 [ENTER]
--A CS:100 [ENTER]
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 [ENTER]
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 [ENTER]
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 [ENTER]
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 [ENTER] (Note: "80" is for hdd0, use "81" for hdd1)
xxxx:010C INT 13 [ENTER]
xxxx:010E INT 20 [ENTER]
xxxx:0110 [ENTER]
--G [ENTER]
Program terminated normally
--[CTRL] [ALT] [DEL]

[Picard]

di niyo madispose? bakit hindi mo nlng kalasin at sirain tapos itapon?

[mazdamazda]

bro... if they contained sensitive data before... it is best if you still store them.

no matter how you electronically "format" the hard drive, data can still be recovered in one way or the other (it jus depends on the patience of the one doing it - hehe).

physically destroying the drives is the only way to do it.

[BlueBimmer]

tapon nalang yan sa cremation chamber ehehe

[mhelskie]

try doing a low level format...

[ghosthunter]

I wonder how effective would a powerful rare earth magnet fare against hard drives?

[artpogi]

try doing a low level format...

yan din nasa isip ko

[Syuryuken]

fdisk mo muna pagkatapos



martilyuhin mo.

[ghosthunter]

guys, the problem is erasing the data on DEFECTIVE hard drives.

[mhelskie]

babad mo sa tubig, mga 3 days. Or try mo buksan tapos sirain ung disk sa loob para cgurado ka ehehe

[artpogi]

fdisk mo muna pagkatapos



martilyuhin mo.

bwahahah

[badkuk]

hmmm...dunno, me chance pa rin atang mababasa ung drives kahit binabad sa tubig. over time masisira ung mylar/media, pero theoretically, pwede ata siyang itanggal at itransplant sa ibang hard drive?

hmmm...i guess burning them would work...i mean, di naman kelangang maging abo, basta'at mag melt/warp lang ung media sa loob. messy though.

i still think that a low level EMP should be able wipe the disk clean B)

[radiazone]

buksan at ibabad sa tubig dagat... lagyan nang acid solution...

[Horsepower]

Yes, funny as it may sound, the best solution is to physically destroy the drive. Whack them.

But if these are Seagate Cheetah SCSI 10,000rpm drives or faster, 68-pin, 73GB and above, just give them to me please. I'll destroy them via ultramagnetic and G force. I'll just do something with the drive. I won't be using it but i'll be able to trade it in for some discount when i buy SCSI drives. hehe.

Im planning to dedicate my 720GB SATA-3G drives as data drive then put OS in SCSI drives but i only have 37GB 10k rpm 68-pin drive (+controller of course). An additional one would be for Linux.

So if you have a SCSI 68pin Seagate Cheetah (usually ending model is LW) lying unused somewhere please donate it me to put it to good use. thanks! hehehe :D

[boybi]

disassemble to hard drives, then i-sand paper yung mga discs.

[mazdamazda]

yup... whacking the discs and then scattering the debris is the best solution.

[flakez]

lagay mo sa plastic bag tapos bagsak mo mula sa mataas na floor. repeat if necessary. tapos saka sunugin. hehehe.

[kingkaboodles]

drill press po. binaklas ko yung ibang hdd to get the magnets para mapaglaruan. as for the platters.. i use them as mirrors.