[Cagey]

Okay, so they dropped the computer/server. How does dropping a computer damage what's on the hard drive? This seems very improbable to me.

Any one with tech background care to comment here?

[Cagey]

More McGreevey slime.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

Send it to me.

I know someone who can retrieve the data.

So does the FBI.

[Fred Mertz]

Investigators reported the following day that nothing could be retrieved from the computer server, sources said.

Yeah, right.

Any techies wish to comment on government corruption?

[meatloaf]

Even after erased and written over, data can be retrieved. The only sure way of ensuring data cannot be retrieved is to place the hard drive in a furnace and reduce it to molten metal.

[meatloaf]

Even after erased and written over, data can be retrieved. The only sure way of ensuring data cannot be retrieved is to place the hard drive in a furnace and reduce it to molten metal.

[Hodar]

When two state investigators picked up the computer server, believed to contain e-mails and other documents related to the case, from the Parole Board the week of April 7, they dropped it into a vehicle so hard that parts flew off, sources said. Investigators reported the following day that nothing could be retrieved from the computer server, sources said.

They dropped it into a vehicle so hard that the hard drive was damaged? How far did they drop it? 20+ stories? I would suggest that the responsbile parties split the bill, after they send the computer here:

http://www.drivesavers.com/

[AppyPappy]

Bull. They dropped it after the wiped the disk

[thegreatbeast]

I don't have that kind of tech backgroud but I am very sceptical that they (NJ state authorities) couldn't go to the FBI or an outside vendor and retrieve anything from a HD that had NOT itself been physically altered.
This is just NJ "grease" not working! These guys have had numerous cracks at destroying the same evidence and failed. Talk about the Dumbing Down of America! Geesh!
Talk about incompetent government; these guys won't stay bought!

[Pyrion]

It rarely does, unless the computer was still powered up at the time of the dropping. In which case it undoubtedly crashed the read-write heads on the hard drive and scratched the hell out of the drive platters.

I fail to see why they're bitching. Just another couple thousand bucks down the drain and a data recovery center can get that data back. :)

[jaz.357]

NJ...corruption??

IM shocked...

SHOCKED!

[Gritty]

I can't imagine such an "unfortunate" thing happening in New Jersey!

Isn't this the State that threw out their own Constitution so they could elect Loutenberg?

[ohmage]

Amazing. They can fix an election but they can't fix a hard drive.

[arthurus]

Either these clods don't know anything about computers or they think no one else knows anything.

[Political Junkie Too]

Right. And the Clinton/Gore White House e-mails never were archived because the programmer didn't capitalize the first name of the server. And Carol Browner of the Clinton EPA ordered her hard drives wiped on her last day at work in violation of a court order.

-PJ