small hard drive
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06-13-08, 12:17 PM
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small hard drive
I saved the hard drive from my old laptop and I recovered the important information from it and successfully reformatted the drive.
It is only a 6 gig drive so I don't think it makes much sense to keep it for any kind of back up usage. Should I just go ahead and destroy it and then toss the broken parts?
It is only a 6 gig drive so I don't think it makes much sense to keep it for any kind of back up usage. Should I just go ahead and destroy it and then toss the broken parts?
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06-13-08, 01:44 PM
Yes, if you had any personal or sensitive data on it you'll want to destroy it before getting rid of it. It's a very easy thing to hook up an old drive and recover data (even after it's been formatted).
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06-16-08, 10:33 AM
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The drive is history and I did not find any super powerful magnets. Nor did I find any such magnets in the other laptop drive I destroyed a few months ago.
BTW, on another forum I got into an argument with a woman that stated the ONLY way to protect any data was a DOD rewriting program. She insisted that a competent person could recover data even if the discs themselves were broken. Well, the discs I found were quite brittle and broke into hundreds of tiny bits. I don't see how anyone could ever recover data from a hard drive that had been smashed.
BTW, on another forum I got into an argument with a woman that stated the ONLY way to protect any data was a DOD rewriting program. She insisted that a competent person could recover data even if the discs themselves were broken. Well, the discs I found were quite brittle and broke into hundreds of tiny bits. I don't see how anyone could ever recover data from a hard drive that had been smashed.
