THE DOG ATE MY HARD DRIVE!
Posted on 07/22/2014 3:10:50 PM PDT by kristinn
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
(lots of scratching going on here!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
Then those responsible need to be arrested and brought before a grand jury. Looks like a gotcha.
Tape backup is still common, will likly be for a while. It’s easy and cheap to backup and store off site which meets many contract requirements for DR.
If it’s a laptop hard drive, very simple, if you want to got the sinister rout.
Take out the screws that mount the HD to the case. Remove the HD. Then take a hammer or any blunt force object to it, gently. Perhaps even shake it hard.
The innocuous way : the “scratch” was likely the needle that reads the data scratching against the surface of the drive. It can happen from use over time, a power disruption while writing to the drive, etc.
It means the platter is scratched. If the head malfunctioned or the system was dropped while the drive was not parked, done...
Recovery from a scratched platter is hit or miss. Archived pst files may be intact but not if they are large which I can almost guarantee they are. There has to be a paper trail somewhere of who they sent the drive to or even if they did. If someone is saying the platter is scratched, the only way to know that is if someone opened the dive up and that was hopefully done by a recovery company.
That used to be fairly common practice. The problem with it is that in an organization of any substantial size having that email scattered out through the network on local .pst files makes legal discovery a nightmare.
The only people who would use this method are organizations that don't ever expect to have their email subpoenaed, and those that do but don't have any intention of complying.
ya need to smash the platters.. not just scratch them, to really get the job done.
Ball peen hammer time!!
So now it’s scratched? What happened? The computer was dropped off the top of the IRS building”
Ball peen hammer time!!
I use a arc welder. Ground the case, turn the amps all the way up, and drop a stick of 6011 through it. Makes a hell of a mess inside that case....
:-)
Now that is good!
as long as the media is ‘modified’ irretrievely, sounds good.
There must be a Smidgen running around the IRS at night scratching hard drives. That’s the only intelligent explanation!
So is her brain. Pro-tip, Lois: the disc that you put in to play music (it's that part that you use as a cup holder when not playing music) is not the hard drive, dear.
Between the hot slag flying around sticking to the platter surfaces, the fractures from the heat stress, and the magnetic flux from the arc, I don't think you're going to be reading anything off those platters, ever again.
With a Phillips Head screwdriver during routine maintenance, right?
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