The magnet corrupted the embedded servo data which the drive uses for tracking. Without special machines to rewrite a new embedded servo, that drive is junk.
This is why I prefer the old stepper drives, they didn't use servo data and could be recovered from just about anything.
Well, you *might* be able to low-level format and re-use the drive again, but I doubt it. If the magnet pulled the read/right head into a collision with the spinning platters, it is game over for the hard drive.
A hard disk is a magnetic storage medium. If you put a strong magnet near it, no duh it's going to lose everything. You will have to low-level format the disk now, if that works.
you can hear the drive trying to read the scrambled data right after he applies the magnet lol. you might be able to save the drive (but not the data) by formatting it.
But the real question is, is the data recoverable by commercial means? Or does it just wipe out enough of it that it can no longer be recognized by the OS?
Gomemdesoto is more correct than Admin IMHO. I find it hard to believe an integrated circuit can be damaged by a magnet.
If you have an old MFM hard drive with stepper motor, hit THAT with a magnet. Then go into your BIOS and low level format it, adn watch it work again. Go ahead. Try it.
And few words more. If you swipe magnet over running hard drive, header writes data to wrong points and this causes data overwriting and serious malfunction of disk. I have tested these with magnet on running hd and magnet on stopped hd. Stopped hd had still few files remaining after magnet, running was completely destroyed. And this was with 100 kg strengt magnet. Active undelete is the best recovery programs you should try. I have videos of these test on my account here in youtube. Peace =D
I need to criticize little bit. It seems like you are using magnet taken from hard drive (true?). And what you think you are doing is that; erasing data with magnet taken inside hd. This doesnt work, not at all. You only destroy drive circuit and drive seems like unreadable. This size magnet doesnt have any effect towards hard drives. I have used much bigger magnets up to 100 kg strengh and I managed to recover files from it. I have videos about that, please watch them and maybe learn something.
I think somethink else was wrong, because with the magnet U destroy just the datas, not the electonic part, so in the bios it should have been okay ! Otherwise really good and interesting video, thanks !!! ;)
The magnet would not only destroy the data, but it would also destroy the low level formatting information and servo positioning information which is written to the disk during manufacture. So yes a strong neodymium magnet would destroy a hard disk.
your retarted lol how can this possibly be fake, i worked on computers for along time now and yeah that does happen most of the item it wont prefectly run after because its redirects all the electricity and breaks it
You can't do this on todays HDD becuse the goverment finded out what Hackers and pirate copiers did to delete all teh data and some big company's with servers included my grandfathers big server had some big problem with losing data back in the days when they found out that the HDD had a big lose of data if you put a magnet close to it so they made new HDD that are imun against magnets and therefor they also made SSD to protect the data even more
excellent idea if you got tons of files that the legal system would love throw you in prison for... 1:1 ratio of iron oxide and aluminum. both have to be dust. and a magnesium ribbon to light the poor mans thermite.
It sounds like you crashed the heads into the disk. I've actually seen this happen and strip all of the metallic coating off of the physical disk. I also noticed you used the magnets from inside of a hard disk. Cool experiment!
You Evil Person! Killing hard drives, you should be arrested. That was sick, couldn't you see it was trying to copy files?! XP
I have a disc that erases data made with a program called Window Washer. Version 6. If people want to erase their files for good, try using the Guttman Method which is 35 passes. Not once, but a bunch of times. It's time consuming, but it'll be worth it.
The other option, assuming one has enough money. Is to smash a hard drive for good. In case you're being hunted.
mmm funny but ... microwaves are not normal thing, the magnet it is a common use thing, the peple put magnets on everysite include computers! i see a lot of disasters!
is this what hackers were using on the movies to erase data on their harddisk? Is this method will permanently delete all files and cannot be recover even by the tools of gov.?
At least some data could still be recovered by repairing the drive.
The government can recover data from zeroed hard drives. Meaning, even if you write zeros to each sector on the drive, data can still be recovered. Remnants of the previous data remain, but could only be recovered by analyzing the raw signal from the heads.
Only the government would bother trying to recover such a drive, and only for a huge case, since it would be fiendishly expensive.
There is one way to permanently erase data on the drive quickly: use a bulk magnetic tape eraser on the hard drive and zap it for about 30 seconds.
This will completely wipe out the low level formatting. If you do that, then everything in the high level formatting will be completely erased as well; instead of writing a zero on the sector, you eradicate the sector itself.
This also permanently bricks the hard drive unless you have the equipment to recreate the sectors on the platters.
My method is very simple and destroy all data near magnet , cant be restored because i pass it a lot of times , the data is altered in all possible ways , i think nobody can restore data from platters , maybe zones with no effect from magnet.
This may be fine if the drive you're erasing only has one platter.
But if the drive uses multiple platters, it's possible that using what appears to be neodymium magnet from a parts hard drive in the way shown may not completely erase the drive; the other platters might still contain data that can be recovered.
A bulk eraser generates a STRONG magnetic field of alternating flux, strong enough to completely erase ALL platters.
Hard drives have multiple plates. Using a magnet will kill it, but the data will mostly be found on the disk I presume. All you need is money to get it back.
good vid learned something,but my maxtor ddh lost its data too damn it i need it that 1 u could of just gave me that 1. n e ways good vid i enjoyed it.
Magnets and Hard Drives - hmm, let me see, thats kind of a no-brainer. Interesting experiment pal, but - why waste time and hardware? Have you tried the myth about putting your hand in flames? Would it hurt? Does it hurt?
i have a question though... would ANY magnet work or just certain magnets will? and if i wanted to do it to a laptop i should just stick it to the bottom of the laptop? really so curious... ^^ your video is interesting...
I mean there is no software that can do better since this destroys all data (not just MBR (like fast software), which is relatively easy to recover btw) on the drive close to instantly :P
Other than that, I couldn't agree more to your post.
Part of the disk is dead.. there's still more data on there on the other side. Forensics may still be able to extract. On the otherside, for typical usage the drive is toast, just remember that data is still there...
Actually you need DOD-certified tools to be sure that it is 100% destroyed and you would also have to use DOD-certified methods. I know, I destroy digital data for a living! If you want 100% you need a DOD demagnetizer or grind all the data off of each side of each disk. REALLY! (DOD- Department of Defense)
Sorry but your comment is very patriotic... like EEUU is better than other countrys.. you say DEPARTAMENT OF DEFENSE... DOD can have very good tools but .. exist others tools and methods to recover data from destroyed hard disk, i do forensic works in hard disk for years.. but i dont have very expensive tools because common people dont waste money in recover data and corporations do uses of servers and multiples backups.
Actually, one can buy DOD tools and even download the software ones (esp. if they are Open Source.) DOD stands out because of their stringent standards. I am sure that other nations have fine standards as well. Since I am in the US DOD is great for us!
Wow, this clears everything. Thanks for letting us know. (text was hard to read in the info about that disk though)
Although one question: I have 2 portable 2.5" HDD Drives. Does sticking 2 hard disks very close to each other would do the same thing? (since they too have magnets right?)
Haber que me entere, has puesto un iman normal encima del disco duro y lo has roto ¿no? Pero eso es normal, es como cuando los discos magneticos o las cintas de casette les arrimabas un iman y se rompia el contenido. No comprendo muy bien el video.
Te explico Danicsson, segun los fabricantes los discos no son dañados al acercarles un IMAN, el video muestra lo contrario solo que se hizo con un iman potente de otro disco duro, igualmente probe con otros discos duros e imanes comunes y sucedio lo mismo solo que esa vez no filme, este video es el segundo intento.
Es muy ilustrativo es verdad, muchos se quejan que utilice un iman poderoso, tambien sucedio lo mismo con imanes convencionales en determinadas ocasiones.
I wanted to see more of your computer/OS's reaction to it. All you showed was the cover of the hard drive. I wanna either see the head twitching, or the OS crashing.
head got thrown off and the very loosly held cilinders slipped off if theres more then one... masive damage on a massive scale... youl be super lucky of that head didnt touch that cilinder as it wobbled... if it did... get a hammer... or 3000$ for deta recovery.
Wait a minute, wait a minute so there was a myth abot putting a magnet near a hard drive?
Are there really idiots out there who are so incapable that they don't know what's inside a hard drive to the point where they have no idea what happens when a magnet is placed near or on top of a hard drive? Holy shit.
its because of a disk inside the hard drive which is made of metal that stops when a magnet is attached. found out when i destroyed my old hard drive with virus on :D. i crushed it with an AXE :))))
I bet you killed the servo track on the platter. That's what it uses to tell where the heads are. Since the platters were spinning under that powerful magnet, they were applied to an alternating field that demagnetized them enough to be unreadable.
ok. the thing is, the hard drive platters are made of really light weight materials like aluminium.. then it has a thin layer of magnetic material in which the servo arm encodes magnetic data...when you put the magnet near it, the data is lost and the hard drive doesnt have any datat to read and totally fails...
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not
i n s a n e and i value my things,
the point here is you do amazing yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us here in YT ok? :)
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not insane and i value my things,
the point here is you do amazing yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us here in YT ok? :)
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not insane and i value my things,
the point here is you do amazing yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us here in YT ok? :)
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not insane and i value my things...
the point here is you do magnificent yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us ok? :)
I know abt cellphones maybe ur using a wireless keyboard cos my microsoft keyboard used to go crazy whenever there was activity in my cellphone(anycellphone)
The HTC advantage has a 8GB microdrive with a mechanical head/spinner. You can see the specs on gsmarena. Its really wierd how the magnet doesnt affect my HTC Subnote!
I am making a video experimenting with the dell notebook hdd. Will soon post it! cheers!
Wow! Thanks for showing me this. ITs been a month since I been trying to figure out all my dell XPS laptops's HDD's failing on me. I have exchenaged the laptop for new 4 times! all the HDD's crashed. It was driving me crazy! In total I have destroyed 5 HDD's!
All this bcos I have HTC advantage X7500 cellphone. IT has a strong magnetic keyboard and I keep the cellphone exactly on the location on the laptop where hdd is! Fuck!
and the irony is HTC(athena)7500 itself has a 8GBmicrodrive in it!
Yes magnet are dangerous, maybe your HTC has a Flash drive and not mechanical drive , for this reason the drive inside HTC is perfect and inside the notebook destroyed.
Nice phone!! nice notebook!
Cellphone near PC is dangerous too.. i have Sony T290a (Old) near keyboard and when the cellphone receive or send signals the keyboards goes crazy is like some ghost press the keys :) is a rare interference but real.
I suspect the real reason the drive failed here was due to the magnet pulling up strong on the drive head, effectively forcing a head crash, and resulting to damage in numerous places throughout the drive. Most importantly damage to the SA.
actually, I'm fairly sure you just overwhelmed the read heads and it lost track. and then maybe fucked up the drive's board and it broke the connection with the computer.
but who knows. The equation will always be the same:
MAGNET + HARD DRIVE = a seamingly useless spinning metal toy.
Being amazed by this video is like being amazed by a video of somebody cutting a car's engine in half with a chainsaw, and then showing the fact that the car doesn't start.
Thanks for comment ,not realy i show my testing, i am a Computer Technician doing experiments :), i have a lot of HD failures, the users or my clients have the idea of put nice and cute cartoons magnets on computer case... and i ahow the effect...
The magnet corrupted the embedded servo data which the drive uses for tracking. Without special machines to rewrite a new embedded servo, that drive is junk.
This is why I prefer the old stepper drives, they didn't use servo data and could be recovered from just about anything.
KB3PNC 1 year ago
I have two old MFM hard disk hehe , are giants .
Now the disk is trashed :)
nopochoclos 1 year ago
sounds like the head was fucked
OhNoNotMyPenis 1 year ago
Well, you *might* be able to low-level format and re-use the drive again, but I doubt it. If the magnet pulled the read/right head into a collision with the spinning platters, it is game over for the hard drive.
thelostsoul83 1 year ago
ya you think you need a magnet i scrambled mine beyond repair with gparted 350 gb now 1 lb paper weight oops
fishpie23 1 year ago
lol..
kishorekumarbairi 2 years ago
A hard disk is a magnetic storage medium. If you put a strong magnet near it, no duh it's going to lose everything. You will have to low-level format the disk now, if that works.
bendibell 2 years ago
LOL super lol 5*
ultragaming1993 2 years ago
you can hear the drive trying to read the scrambled data right after he applies the magnet lol. you might be able to save the drive (but not the data) by formatting it.
onionofdeath 2 years ago
nope
SeanBondWBB 2 years ago
Loud Hard drive
Lucidrainx 2 years ago
ah my flat LCD screen is suffering a from a short so i use the old one, and now when i get a magnet near it, it changes colors :P
no0bK1ll3r 2 years ago
But the real question is, is the data recoverable by commercial means? Or does it just wipe out enough of it that it can no longer be recognized by the OS?
AuGmENTor 2 years ago
@AuGmENTor lol. What do you have to hide, mr?
Once magnetic fields interfere with the data on the hard drive, the data held therein will be unrecoverable.
djahriman 2 years ago
Gomemdesoto is more correct than Admin IMHO. I find it hard to believe an integrated circuit can be damaged by a magnet.
If you have an old MFM hard drive with stepper motor, hit THAT with a magnet. Then go into your BIOS and low level format it, adn watch it work again. Go ahead. Try it.
FerralVideo 2 years ago
I dont say "integrated circuit can be damaged by a magnet" , i only test what do a magnet over HD.
The result is on video , then the NO bios can recognize any more, why , i cant say it... :(
MFM hd ha ha , i collect that type of HD (i am computer collector) the MFM HD has the best working sound :)
nopochoclos 2 years ago
Just noticed the speed of that hard drive 142kbps transfer. My internet connection is even way faster than that hard drive
mikee286 2 years ago 2
that's IDE for ya, lol. 300mb/s :P
lmull3 2 years ago
It is a very old HD but functional :) , now it is dead :)
nopochoclos 2 years ago
Neat video but the music was annoying.
matt9c1 2 years ago 2
So your computer crashed basically?
95Barqs1 2 years ago
Total Commander rulez!
Runs even on Windows 3.0
ZXRulezzz 2 years ago
wtf it a very noisy hdd
and is the hdd now dead?
Mapimaholland 2 years ago
It is a very old Hard disk , the cammera has a good mic too and the HD is dead now : )
nopochoclos 2 years ago
And few words more. If you swipe magnet over running hard drive, header writes data to wrong points and this causes data overwriting and serious malfunction of disk. I have tested these with magnet on running hd and magnet on stopped hd. Stopped hd had still few files remaining after magnet, running was completely destroyed. And this was with 100 kg strengt magnet. Active undelete is the best recovery programs you should try. I have videos of these test on my account here in youtube. Peace =D
AdminGoogolplexian 2 years ago 11
I need to criticize little bit. It seems like you are using magnet taken from hard drive (true?). And what you think you are doing is that; erasing data with magnet taken inside hd. This doesnt work, not at all. You only destroy drive circuit and drive seems like unreadable. This size magnet doesnt have any effect towards hard drives. I have used much bigger magnets up to 100 kg strengh and I managed to recover files from it. I have videos about that, please watch them and maybe learn something.
AdminGoogolplexian 2 years ago 2
Too small magnet. I tested this too with more powerful magnet, I have also video about that.. You find video on my account here in youtube...
AdminGoogolplexian 2 years ago 2
Good one ! I hope you repaired it :) 5/5
KristiannoProduction 2 years ago
I think somethink else was wrong, because with the magnet U destroy just the datas, not the electonic part, so in the bios it should have been okay ! Otherwise really good and interesting video, thanks !!! ;)
V0ree 2 years ago
The bios cant recognize the hard disk, i dont know how affect but the result is in the video.
nopochoclos 2 years ago
The magnet would not only destroy the data, but it would also destroy the low level formatting information and servo positioning information which is written to the disk during manufacture. So yes a strong neodymium magnet would destroy a hard disk.
gomemdesoto 2 years ago
You say the correct data :)
nopochoclos 2 years ago
It's fake.. They did that on mythbusters with a really big industrial magnet and the pc kept working perfectly..
UntakenNick 2 years ago
haha... do it yourself and try with your hard disk...
Its real see the video again, i cant lie about this.
nopochoclos 2 years ago
stupid or wat?? how do you think a hdd is working?
go and try with your hdd!!!!
burn in hell
theincredibledeus 2 years ago
i dont know this episode, but did they also take out the hdd to put the magnet ONTO it?
Boeserwolf93 2 years ago
your retarted lol how can this possibly be fake, i worked on computers for along time now and yeah that does happen most of the item it wont prefectly run after because its redirects all the electricity and breaks it
ElectronicHowTo 2 years ago
is this because the magnet it stopping the electomagnetic feilds from getting to the hard disc motor?
TCDIL95 2 years ago
You're teasing him while he's doing his work :)
MAST654 2 years ago
so does that mean the magnet erases all the data in the disk?
banga999 2 years ago
when i did it with a magnent it did nothing lol
191191119 2 years ago
Pretty much explain why my hard drive stalls. My PC is next to my guitar amplifier.
ASPunisher12 2 years ago 2
You can't do this on todays HDD becuse the goverment finded out what Hackers and pirate copiers did to delete all teh data and some big company's with servers included my grandfathers big server had some big problem with losing data back in the days when they found out that the HDD had a big lose of data if you put a magnet close to it so they made new HDD that are imun against magnets and therefor they also made SSD to protect the data even more
SMGJohn 2 years ago
arent there rare earth magnets in harddrvies
ClarkPoo 2 years ago
cool, wot software did you use?
alistairstuart2009 2 years ago
I wonder if Spinrite could recover it?
hbunnie1120 2 years ago
Hello , no , i try a lot of recovery software , no recover is posible ..
Thanks for comment
nopochoclos 2 years ago
How about the debug script?
hbunnie1120 2 years ago
There's no recovery possible by software. However if you want to dish-out $20k for the laboratory fees, it can be recovered.
pluto 2 years ago
Thermite.
Moveyourcow 3 years ago
excellent idea if you got tons of files that the legal system would love throw you in prison for... 1:1 ratio of iron oxide and aluminum. both have to be dust. and a magnesium ribbon to light the poor mans thermite.
freakman420 2 years ago
nice i USED to use limewire so i took a magnet and ****** off any trand for court i did a FULL unrecoverable wipe and the RIAA lost
irulethe70s 2 years ago
Extreme caution.... a magnet and destroy all data
nopochoclos 2 years ago
i did this to an old western digital caviar with a neodymium super magnet too >:P
cheetawolf 3 years ago
dude its sounds like a dirt bike lmao
PSPSlimer 3 years ago
this sucks i had a super magnet in my poket and i also had my Zune in the same poket the magnet screwd up and broke the hard drive inside my zune.
does anyone know were to buy the zune hard drive if yes contact me or post a coment
thanks
JN371 3 years ago
what's a zune?
hokman1 2 years ago
idiot zune uses flash memory!
americanworksmen 2 years ago
Oh umm i need help with my zune to.... OH WAIT I HAVE AN I POD JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE PLANET!
shinji312 2 years ago
lol HDD players.
YDI get a flash-based one.
cyborgtroy 2 years ago
Reedit the letters in the Hardware specs they're unreadable!!!
einarabelc5 3 years ago
The original video shows perfect Hardware specs but when i upload to youtube the video lost a lot of quality .
Read info on upper right of the screen.
Greetings
nopochoclos 3 years ago
It sounds like you crashed the heads into the disk. I've actually seen this happen and strip all of the metallic coating off of the physical disk. I also noticed you used the magnets from inside of a hard disk. Cool experiment!
Majoraslayer 3 years ago
No man , the heads are perfect but data stored in plates are lost for ever... . :)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
sounds like a dirtbike
ARR016a 3 years ago 2
ha ha
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Boy i remember those quantum fireball hard disks there more reliable than Maxtor.
Lexakron 3 years ago 8
Wow, your harddisk sounds like a moped xD
RandomMeisters 3 years ago
is data still available in your dard drive ?
SunnyShawFilms 3 years ago
No all data is destroyed and the hard disk cant be detected by the Bios or system anymore.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
"dard drive" lmao
cloud1994okeefl 3 years ago
poor hard drive :(
omid11 3 years ago
it´s a pity :)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
evil!!! 5 stars for trying :P
alvadagansta 3 years ago
I´m guilty
nopochoclos 3 years ago
You Evil Person! Killing hard drives, you should be arrested. That was sick, couldn't you see it was trying to copy files?! XP
I have a disc that erases data made with a program called Window Washer. Version 6. If people want to erase their files for good, try using the Guttman Method which is 35 passes. Not once, but a bunch of times. It's time consuming, but it'll be worth it.
The other option, assuming one has enough money. Is to smash a hard drive for good. In case you're being hunted.
NeoToasty 3 years ago
I think puttin' the thing in a microwave would be worse than that.... ;)
Now, that'd be a nice video !!
Give it a try, man...
Bypassone 3 years ago
mmm funny but ... microwaves are not normal thing, the magnet it is a common use thing, the peple put magnets on everysite include computers! i see a lot of disasters!
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Well DUH!!!! you put a hard drive magnet on a working hard drive.... what do you expect... try a regular ORDINARY magnet
remmiz06 3 years ago
Try yourself and do something useful :)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Triperzz exist
There are two major forms of software or physically in this case is physically .
Maybe you view a magnetic machine , this machine cleans the entire hard disk by magnetic impulse.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
is this what hackers were using on the movies to erase data on their harddisk? Is this method will permanently delete all files and cannot be recover even by the tools of gov.?
triperzz 3 years ago
At least some data could still be recovered by repairing the drive.
The government can recover data from zeroed hard drives. Meaning, even if you write zeros to each sector on the drive, data can still be recovered. Remnants of the previous data remain, but could only be recovered by analyzing the raw signal from the heads.
Only the government would bother trying to recover such a drive, and only for a huge case, since it would be fiendishly expensive.
captain150 3 years ago
There is one way to permanently erase data on the drive quickly: use a bulk magnetic tape eraser on the hard drive and zap it for about 30 seconds.
This will completely wipe out the low level formatting. If you do that, then everything in the high level formatting will be completely erased as well; instead of writing a zero on the sector, you eradicate the sector itself.
This also permanently bricks the hard drive unless you have the equipment to recreate the sectors on the platters.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
My method is very simple and destroy all data near magnet , cant be restored because i pass it a lot of times , the data is altered in all possible ways , i think nobody can restore data from platters , maybe zones with no effect from magnet.
Greetings
nopochoclos 3 years ago
This may be fine if the drive you're erasing only has one platter.
But if the drive uses multiple platters, it's possible that using what appears to be neodymium magnet from a parts hard drive in the way shown may not completely erase the drive; the other platters might still contain data that can be recovered.
A bulk eraser generates a STRONG magnetic field of alternating flux, strong enough to completely erase ALL platters.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
Hard drives have multiple plates. Using a magnet will kill it, but the data will mostly be found on the disk I presume. All you need is money to get it back.
latuman 3 years ago
YOU INITIALIZED THE CLICK OF DEATH >:D
cheetawolf 3 years ago
Yeah! that horrible sound!!.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Your english needs improving.
FoamPackingPeanuts 3 years ago
Yes my english is like Tarzan or Jackie Chan! but i try to learn day a day!, i have no time to study :( .
Greetings :)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
good vid learned something,but my maxtor ddh lost its data too damn it i need it that 1 u could of just gave me that 1. n e ways good vid i enjoyed it.
TONYLUVSPRISCILLA 3 years ago
Thanks for view the video!
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Magnets and Hard Drives - hmm, let me see, thats kind of a no-brainer. Interesting experiment pal, but - why waste time and hardware? Have you tried the myth about putting your hand in flames? Would it hurt? Does it hurt?
GraemeSPa 3 years ago
Ha ha very funny but ...
Your tastes are another matter, not everyone understands things easily.
Besides if I want to do that experiment I'm going to do I will not ask your permission or that of anyone else.
greetings
nopochoclos 3 years ago
lol thats one confused HDD
CrdBrdProjects 3 years ago
Yes! has personality disorder :P
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Number one way to kill computers
absolvscharizard 3 years ago
:'(
javier7high 3 years ago
next time put your hard drive into a microwave or a dishwasher
UNCLETEDDY123 3 years ago
Ha ha... geve me your HD and i promess ... i destroy it in microwave or dishwasher...
nopochoclos 3 years ago
i have a question though... would ANY magnet work or just certain magnets will? and if i wanted to do it to a laptop i should just stick it to the bottom of the laptop? really so curious... ^^ your video is interesting...
icyelysia 3 years ago 3
I wanted to see the OS crashing!
ale12396 3 years ago
:) the os not crash because the disk is in usb carry disk, only shows the Total commander read /write error, but the OS works perfeclty.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
ah! sorry!
ale12396 3 years ago
thats it!!!im calling the harddrive police and theyl lock you up for ever in jayl for terorizing poor hd's!!!
norbi022 3 years ago
it was likely a shitty maxtor so it's ok :D
markii63 3 years ago
says quantum right across is in big bold letters. what the fuck brand to you think it is?
tartredarrow 3 years ago
Ha ha very funny learning class :) , yes Quantum! , now i need this kind of HD maybe buy an Commodore Amiga :)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
there is software out there that can do that better :)
B00h44 3 years ago
Probably not since this wipes out EVERYTHING, which means basically all bad blocks...
Though some hdd diagnostic programs might be able to restore these, I doubt it.
Djhg2000 3 years ago
Hello, no , i cant restore it , it cant be detected by bios anymore, maybe with good recovery tools /hardware for that .
nopochoclos 3 years ago
I mean there is no software that can do better since this destroys all data (not just MBR (like fast software), which is relatively easy to recover btw) on the drive close to instantly :P
Other than that, I couldn't agree more to your post.
Djhg2000 3 years ago
NOOooooo!
-OMG! He killed Hardy!
-You bustard!
FLO0DER 3 years ago 7
Nice response..
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Part of the disk is dead.. there's still more data on there on the other side. Forensics may still be able to extract. On the otherside, for typical usage the drive is toast, just remember that data is still there...
donaldtillman 3 years ago
Mmm...part of data still there... maybe.. the zones affected by the magnet are 100% destroyed :)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Actually you need DOD-certified tools to be sure that it is 100% destroyed and you would also have to use DOD-certified methods. I know, I destroy digital data for a living! If you want 100% you need a DOD demagnetizer or grind all the data off of each side of each disk. REALLY! (DOD- Department of Defense)
dltillman 3 years ago
Also the only way to know is to use a Magnetic Force Microscope (MFM) or a modified Scanning Tunnel Microscope (STM) .. period..
dltillman 3 years ago
Sorry but your comment is very patriotic... like EEUU is better than other countrys.. you say DEPARTAMENT OF DEFENSE... DOD can have very good tools but .. exist others tools and methods to recover data from destroyed hard disk, i do forensic works in hard disk for years.. but i dont have very expensive tools because common people dont waste money in recover data and corporations do uses of servers and multiples backups.
Thanks for the tech comment
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Actually, one can buy DOD tools and even download the software ones (esp. if they are Open Source.) DOD stands out because of their stringent standards. I am sure that other nations have fine standards as well. Since I am in the US DOD is great for us!
donaldtillman 3 years ago
you cruel monster!how could you kill a poor defencles hard drive!you will suffer in viruses and computer crashes!!!
norbi022 3 years ago
Very funny norbi022 :) thanks for humor
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Wow, this clears everything. Thanks for letting us know. (text was hard to read in the info about that disk though)
Although one question: I have 2 portable 2.5" HDD Drives. Does sticking 2 hard disks very close to each other would do the same thing? (since they too have magnets right?)
akiratrooper 3 years ago
Yes.... nice method to kill HD´s
nopochoclos 3 years ago
It's a silent yet cruel way to kill a hard disk!!
CHARLIETWW 3 years ago
oh my god! he killed quanty !!!
blazej1 3 years ago
Yeah a very good hard disk (oldies)
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Do you can format the harddrive and reïnstall some operating system and use the harddrive again or is it forever broken?
xhermelijns 3 years ago
No , the result of this experiment is a dead hd, not recongnized by the bios anymore , total destruction.
Greetings
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Sad... there goes a HD to the history... I still got a HD that is 10 mb, no way I would destroy it! :D nice vid, but the music sux
randomforum 3 years ago
Thanks for enjoy the video
nopochoclos 3 years ago
lol and that magnets are INSIDE of a hard drive
Messerschmitt262a2a 3 years ago
Curioso, de todas maneras supongo que a estos HDD les quedan dos telediarios, ya mismo sacaran los rigidosy ahi no hay vuelta de hoja.
danicsson 3 years ago
Haber que me entere, has puesto un iman normal encima del disco duro y lo has roto ¿no? Pero eso es normal, es como cuando los discos magneticos o las cintas de casette les arrimabas un iman y se rompia el contenido. No comprendo muy bien el video.
Saludos
danicsson 3 years ago
Te explico Danicsson, segun los fabricantes los discos no son dañados al acercarles un IMAN, el video muestra lo contrario solo que se hizo con un iman potente de otro disco duro, igualmente probe con otros discos duros e imanes comunes y sucedio lo mismo solo que esa vez no filme, este video es el segundo intento.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
does that destroy all the data in the hdd, i mean, no possible recovery?
laughinsilence 3 years ago
Yes the HD is broken, no data can recovered and the BIOS cant detect the HD, =Total destruction :) .
nopochoclos 3 years ago
loly lol
7ee1b751 3 years ago
Esto fue bastante ilustrativo. Me encanto. Le doy 5 estrellas.
Gedevanishvili 3 years ago
Muchas gracias por ver y calificar el video.
Es muy ilustrativo es verdad, muchos se quejan que utilice un iman poderoso, tambien sucedio lo mismo con imanes convencionales en determinadas ocasiones.
Saludos
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Orale.
Gedevanishvili 3 years ago
lol, 1 that magnet is from a hard drive 2 of course it wont work a hard drive uses magnets no motors
neothematrixhacker 3 years ago
harddrives use motors you retard
1 motor to spin the discs
1 voice coil to move the head
antonmjor 3 years ago
failed
bobtendo 3 years ago
This is really old: 150kb/s copying speed is less than 1/100 that actual hard drives can make!
Potew 3 years ago
150kB/s is 1X , is like 1X CD-ROM , yes is very old HD :) . Now is dead, impossible to revive it.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
The reaction of OS and computer is NOTHING because is connected in USB Carry disk.
The OS runs perfect only shows "cant read the disk" the computer runs like
as if nothing happened.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
I'm afraid this kind of sucked.
I wanted to see more of your computer/OS's reaction to it. All you showed was the cover of the hard drive. I wanna either see the head twitching, or the OS crashing.
JackBond1234 3 years ago
head got thrown off and the very loosly held cilinders slipped off if theres more then one... masive damage on a massive scale... youl be super lucky of that head didnt touch that cilinder as it wobbled... if it did... get a hammer... or 3000$ for deta recovery.
friendlynot 3 years ago
Wait a minute, wait a minute so there was a myth abot putting a magnet near a hard drive?
Are there really idiots out there who are so incapable that they don't know what's inside a hard drive to the point where they have no idea what happens when a magnet is placed near or on top of a hard drive? Holy shit.
themangodess 3 years ago
yeah its dead - i've always wondered what happens - could have been more dramatic (like it goes BOOM or shatters)
TheDevilOnHoliday 3 years ago
Real hard drive killer !
Trusten1984 3 years ago
its because of a disk inside the hard drive which is made of metal that stops when a magnet is attached. found out when i destroyed my old hard drive with virus on :D. i crushed it with an AXE :))))
olihaunt 3 years ago
the platters in the drive are aluminium and are not magnetic... its the thin film of magnetic layer on them that is deleted
Krisspychiken 3 years ago
Yes a thin film of ferrous material on the platters surface.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
lol
SkaterBen21 3 years ago
thats cuz theres a high poewred magnet inside the harddrive and another magnet causes it to repel and it messes it up
piratelord99 3 years ago
I bet you killed the servo track on the platter. That's what it uses to tell where the heads are. Since the platters were spinning under that powerful magnet, they were applied to an alternating field that demagnetized them enough to be unreadable.
gblargg 3 years ago
Very good theory! , when i have time i try to revive it, and upload the video, next i do other test.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
ok. the thing is, the hard drive platters are made of really light weight materials like aluminium.. then it has a thin layer of magnetic material in which the servo arm encodes magnetic data...when you put the magnet near it, the data is lost and the hard drive doesnt have any datat to read and totally fails...
Krisspychiken 3 years ago
but now there is and that's me. just be cool man :)
xyvermatrix 3 years ago
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not
i n s a n e and i value my things,
the point here is you do amazing yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us here in YT ok? :)
xyvermatrix 3 years ago
There're no one to give orders to me.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not insane and i value my things,
the point here is you do amazing yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us here in YT ok? :)
xyvermatrix 3 years ago
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not insane and i value my things,
the point here is you do amazing yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us here in YT ok? :)
xyvermatrix 3 years ago
next time show us your demonstration on a newly purchased brand new 600GB hard disk drive.
xyvermatrix 3 years ago
Why 600 GB? why not old HD? is the same thing to do this test, if you give me a new 600 GB HD i do for you the test :).
nopochoclos 3 years ago
i have 1 600GB HDD but the thing is i don't do that even on my 3.2GB HDD coz im not insane and i value my things...
the point here is you do magnificent yet cool things on your own or other stuff so provide your self any HDD old or new working or not to satisfy all of us ok? :)
xyvermatrix 3 years ago
I know abt cellphones maybe ur using a wireless keyboard cos my microsoft keyboard used to go crazy whenever there was activity in my cellphone(anycellphone)
The HTC advantage has a 8GB microdrive with a mechanical head/spinner. You can see the specs on gsmarena. Its really wierd how the magnet doesnt affect my HTC Subnote!
I am making a video experimenting with the dell notebook hdd. Will soon post it! cheers!
metalheadkicks 3 years ago
Wow! Thanks for showing me this. ITs been a month since I been trying to figure out all my dell XPS laptops's HDD's failing on me. I have exchenaged the laptop for new 4 times! all the HDD's crashed. It was driving me crazy! In total I have destroyed 5 HDD's!
All this bcos I have HTC advantage X7500 cellphone. IT has a strong magnetic keyboard and I keep the cellphone exactly on the location on the laptop where hdd is! Fuck!
and the irony is HTC(athena)7500 itself has a 8GBmicrodrive in it!
metalheadkicks 3 years ago
Yes magnet are dangerous, maybe your HTC has a Flash drive and not mechanical drive , for this reason the drive inside HTC is perfect and inside the notebook destroyed.
Nice phone!! nice notebook!
Cellphone near PC is dangerous too.. i have Sony T290a (Old) near keyboard and when the cellphone receive or send signals the keyboards goes crazy is like some ghost press the keys :) is a rare interference but real.
nopochoclos 3 years ago
Haha Way is is it a magnet inside the harddrive then? LOL
halladere 3 years ago
The data on a hard drive is stored magneticly...
LooperNor 3 years ago
crap hdd ne way
slaterking1000 3 years ago
I suspect the real reason the drive failed here was due to the magnet pulling up strong on the drive head, effectively forcing a head crash, and resulting to damage in numerous places throughout the drive. Most importantly damage to the SA.
DefconComputers 3 years ago 4
I see inside the drive , the surface is perfect, i try to revive it in a while, then do a hard surface scan to see bad blocks...
My theory is ... the magnet changes the surfaces magnetics, the data is stored by magnetig force.. yes no 0 or 1.. the magnet destroy this data .
nopochoclos 3 years ago
wow your theory is right on the money.
slimer145 3 years ago
actually, I'm fairly sure you just overwhelmed the read heads and it lost track. and then maybe fucked up the drive's board and it broke the connection with the computer.
but who knows. The equation will always be the same:
MAGNET + HARD DRIVE = a seamingly useless spinning metal toy.
phazonxl 3 years ago 3
Being amazed by this video is like being amazed by a video of somebody cutting a car's engine in half with a chainsaw, and then showing the fact that the car doesn't start.
Snedd99 3 years ago
Thanks for comment ,not realy i show my testing, i am a Computer Technician doing experiments :), i have a lot of HD failures, the users or my clients have the idea of put nice and cute cartoons magnets on computer case... and i ahow the effect...
nopochoclos 3 years ago