Been asked to "DESTROY" a hard disk drive... best method? ;o)

smids · 24 Jan 2006 at 11:36

wesley said:
haha, when i read the OP's post, first thing in my mind was Chuck Norris. how sad

You gotta stop watching the Channel 5 rerun's of all his films tbh :cool:

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Mana · 24 Jan 2006 at 11:42

flush it down the loo

Munday · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:21

Hit with a hammer and chisel?

sniper007 · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:00

benjo1989 said:
TTIUWP

Well I ended up hitting it with a hammer since it was the only thing lying about....

Erm....glassy/grainy substance comes out when you shake it now.

PieMaster · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:50

sniper007 said:
Well I ended up hitting it with a hammer since it was the only thing lying about....

That doesnt count... its a laptop hard disk!

Dropping it from a desk would have probably done it...

VeNT · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:54

very large electro magnet, then get the disks as hot has posable (fire, furnice, blowtorch etc)

melt it down

benjo plz. · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:59

sniper007 said:
Well I ended up hitting it with a hammer since it was the only thing lying about....

You used the wrong side of the hammer tbh

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MAllen · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:23

How tall is your building? Go up to the roof, and chuck it down onto the car park. Should **** it up quite good.

I also second the idea of sanding the platters. When I have a customer who need s disk "destroyed" I will often start with a hammer to open the drive up (or the afore mentioned high drop). Then rip each platter out and smack then real hard with a hammer and chisel. Deform them out of shape.

Then add some sand paper / acid / dynamite and it will become very hard to recover anything.

R B Customs · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:57

anyone acctually made thermite and used it ?
i know its just iron oxide adn aluminuim, with a magnesium fuse... i heard if u put it on a car bonnet it will burn the the pavement... sounds like a good enough way to wreck a HDD lol... maybe the most " mad scientist" way atleast :>

derbyjake · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:03

just get grinder and grind it

or put it in block of concrete n chuck in river lol

Behemoth · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:14

Salt water, preferably sea water would have done the trick.

Either that or just dig a hole on your garden and bury it deep.

Nixeh · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:14

run windows ME on it

Mason64 · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:18

i open them up and use the discs as tea coasters

basmic · 25 Jan 2006 at 00:06

Nixeh said:
run windows ME on it

Made me LOL!

If it were me, I'd have been tempted to sand it down.

Spin the baby up, and use the dremel's sanding bit to sand each platter down, one by one. :cool:

VBDub · 25 Jan 2006 at 11:37

VaderDSL said:
Thermite

I have to say that did make me lol!

VaderDSL · 25 Jan 2006 at 11:44

Take it to C.E.R.N in Switzerland, put it on top of the particle accelerator there

should do the trick

Moeks · 25 Jan 2006 at 19:54

12 bore at point blank should do the trick

...better make it a couple though to be real sure. The take the remains and shove them in a blast furnace, gotta be hot enough to melt metal

SiriusB · 26 Jan 2006 at 02:48

Moeks said:
12 bore at point blank should do the trick ...better make it a couple though to be real sure. The take the remains and shove them in a blast furnace, gotta be hot enough to melt metal

If it's weaponry we're moving onto, I would recommend a thermonuclear device. Might want to warn the neigbours...

SiriusB

Moeks · 26 Jan 2006 at 16:02

SiriusB said:
If it's weaponry we're moving onto, I would recommend a thermonuclear device. Might want to warn the neigbours...

SiriusB

Now that's just plain over the top ...I like it

smids · 26 Jan 2006 at 16:13

Strapping it to a TND which is ready for use is always a good idea - 1 million degrees core temp should be enough to vapourise it when it goes boom.

I would however just take a sander to it first, then hack it up into about 20 pieces, scattering them every week across different parts of the country. Perhaps one in a street bin one week, another part buried in your garden, another in a McDonald's bin (I always wonder what happens to that stuff, perhaps they use it to power nuclear power stations?) and keep one bit as a part of a keyring. Chance of data recovery for anyone who will not spend their entire life searching for all the bits = approaching 0.