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

Defcon5 said:
Wont running a magnet over it ruin it well and truly?

Id keep it incase you get sacked!
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True it wont do it much good, but with a device known as a magnetron you can still pick up a lot of the data because of magnetic ghosts and other technical stuff I don't have a clue about.

Best way of trashing a HDD would be to melt it down. Failing that, power sand the platters, cut them up and distribute the bits as far and wide as possible. No one is recovering your goat porn after that!

SiriusB
 
Heres a good idea (All steps, 1 to 15)

1) Run a magnet over it (strong magnet)
2) Smash it open and then smash everything with a hammer, making sure everything is deformed and smahed
3) Keep smashin
4) put it all back together and then throw it off of a building
5) smash it open again and then put thermite on it
6) Spray everything with deoderant and then throw a match on there
7) Steal some hydrochorlic acid all over it
8) Sand then thing to hell
9) keep sanding
10) give it to children to destroy the left overs
11) throw nuclear waste all over it
12) Incase it in cement
13) throw the cement block off of your building
14) Smash the cement up to 4 pieces
15) Put one down the loo, throw one in the ocean, bury another bit and then give the other bit to your dog

ORRRRRR you could just keep the hard drive and use the data on it as blackmail :D :rolleyes: :cool: (Joke of course lol)

How would you even begin to recover data left over from that lol. (Thankyou for the ideas from other forum members :p )
 
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Phnom_Penh said:
Do what now? :p
I think 10. will do, nothing else would do as much damage ;).
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Pour some hydrochloric acid over it :cool: good stuff lol. Great fun to watch my chemistry teacher show us "exciting" experiments with it. Should render a hard drive useless and only the power of turning back time could recover the data :p
 
I know you say the hard drive isn't working but i thought this might help others here.

Eraser 5.7 is Freeware and very well rated, Read this review i found.

"I work in an office connected to the criminal justice system and have had occasion to use forensic imaging and file recovery software. We pitted twenty-two shredders (including BCWipe, Evidence Eliminator, NoEvidence, WindowWasher, and the AnalogX product) against the industry standard digital evidence aquisition products. Only with a file structure wiped by Eraser were we able to prevent the forensic software from recovering files. There's no better software for _permanently_ deleting sensitive data."

Think that says it all really.
 
in all seriousness, if you did just break it in half with a hammer, the platters that is, how possible would it be to get the parts back together and then get it into a hdd case and in full working order, and who has the correct kit to do this?

Its basically impossible.

soooo just smahs it with a hammer or scratch the platters.

the run windows ME comment actually made me lol, nice suprise scrolling down the page full of absolute crap :p
 
i didnt smash mine up

i took it apart

then chopped most of the lid out with a dremel and replaced with plastic for a window modded harddrive.

of course it will never work again. But it looked good on our IT Departments notice board. We did it with a load of other stuff as well, to show how stuff worked.
 
At work we dismantle the drive, then smash the platters.
With some HDDs the platters seem very brittle, with others you need a pair of bolt cutters to cut through them, 'tis weird.
 
JollyGreen said:
At work we dismantle the drive, then smash the platters.
With some HDDs the platters seem very brittle, with others you need a pair of bolt cutters to cut through them, 'tis weird.
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Not so weird.... that big batch of IBM drives that failed were all on Glass platters instead of steel. So they are probally IBMs or someone who used a simliar idea. :)
 
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