I thought that this item that arrived from On Track in my In Box tonight would be interesting.
Apparently On Track was given a Drive from Colombia and they managed to recover 99% of the Data on the drive. No mean feat when you consider just what that drive was exposed to and it had gone through more than what most companies do to protect themselves from Data Theft.
and in a supporting link is the write up of the Experiment that the recovered Data Pertained to.
What made the job easier was the fact that this drive was running DOS so the data wasn't scattered all over the drive so it was possible to recover from the undamaged part of the platters. Kind of makes one think when we see stories like this doesn't it?
Col
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I remember when it was "new" and I'm not very old at all.
Add to that an incident this weekend when my date asked me what some of my favorite movies were. No self respecting guy would omit "Tombstone" (the one with Kurt Russel) from that list...to which she replied in a bubbly young voice "Oh yeah, I haven't seen it but my Dad has that one and loves it, too." Wow, I realized that no matter how hard I rationalized that 24 wasn't THAT much younger than me and that maturity isn't dependent on age that I was so in a different generation bracket and I am apparently in some sort of twisted mid life crisis.
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A picture of the drive in question as it was delivered for recovery
Hmmm....I have some old Connor 40Mb drives that look like that...and they're still running!!
I just dug out a pile of old stuff that has been sat in a cardboard carton under a pile of old wood behind my garden shed - exposed to a British winter for six months and completely waterlogged. It's amazing what still works, although I was reluctant to power up the ATX power supplies until I left it to dry out for a couple of days! )
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Well as I've seen a few people asking about disposing of HDD's recently
Apparently On Track was given a Drive from Colombia and they managed to recover 99% of the Data on the drive. No mean feat when you consider just what that drive was exposed to and it had gone through more than what most companies do to protect themselves from Data Theft.
Full Article is listed here
http://tinyurl.com/4xy5vv
and in a supporting link is the write up of the Experiment that the recovered Data Pertained to.
What made the job easier was the fact that this drive was running DOS so the data wasn't scattered all over the drive so it was possible to recover from the undamaged part of the platters. Kind of makes one think when we see stories like this doesn't it?
Col