TSS Thermite HDD
Uploader Comments (cwestside)
All Comments (19)
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just sandblast the platters. It's not as cool as other options, but it'll work.
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oh calm the fuck down u internet dog
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not quite as safe as a melted block of hard drive tho is it? or sand?
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the acid corroded the top layer of the disk so i don't think it can be read by the electron microscope. if it ate the aluminum cover it ate some of the layers of the disk also.
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The method I've heard of to retrieve data from a formatted disk that someone with a lot of money to throw at it (government?) can use involved an electron microscope.
Look at the disk, see where the faint differences in charge are still at, and map the data off of that.
That being said, I have no idea of the actual process, as that is FAR beyond my needs, and I highly doubt that anything I'm likely to have on my hard drive would merit anything that interesting.
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Lern too spell NEIGHBORHOOD and WHILE dummy
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Even if the hard drive would have survived and the disks recoverable, the temperature is way past the Curie point, so even if the disk was intact (which it wasn't), the disk would be demagnetized.
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it not a low-lvl format?
its no high-lvl formatting too
thats a very different beast!
go check wikipedia or any other side if u dont believe me
and now u tell me, how to recover data from that!
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You can actually still recover data from that. DOD spec I believe is to write data to a given sector(s) atleast 5 - 7 times before its "gone". A simple low-level format (which is what you described) is not sufficient.
it's called formating, it won't hurt nobody ;)
fumatu 4 years ago
formatting is recoverable. government spec is to destroy the platters. ie grind them in to sand
cwestside 4 years ago 2
thwe best way to erase any data is microwave, destroy everi thing on cd's and HDD
antymperio 4 years ago
go ahead try and microwave a plater from a HDD nothing will happen same thing happens when you put a spoon in the microwave if there is no ARC nothing happens try crinkling up some tin foil and throw it in and you will see what happens when theres an ARC
cwestside 4 years ago