Could background on a tricky drive be recovered if... (suffered extreme abuse)?
If I did any of the following:
shot the drive once with a .30 caliber rifle bullet?
shot it partially a dozen times with a 9mm handgun?
used it as a clay pigeon for my shotgun (buckshot)?
removed the drive cover and bash the platters with a bubble peen hammer?
set it smouldering for 1/2 hour with gasoline?
set bad 3 grams of thermite on it?
opened the drive and set sour an M80 on top the platters?
used a soldering gun (degauss device) to attempt to corrupt the data?
knife the drive platters directly? (stabbing or slashing the platters)
used 80grit sand paper on the drive platters
dropped a drive beside the cover removed into a sulfuric acid tub?
put a stick of dynamite under the drive and set if sour?
welded a tie up to the drive and drug it behind my saloon on the freeway for a couple hours (average day's commute to the city)?
stuck the opened drive surrounded by the dishwasher?
poured circuit board etching solution into an opened drive?
zapped the drive beside a tesla coil?
ran it over near a tank?
threw it bad a plane at 500 feet and 180 mph? (onto easier said than done pavement)
could data be recovered by a professional if the drive suffered the tabled kinds of extreme knock about or purposeful destruction?
an earlier yahoo! answers cross-question about fastest method to destroying hard drives made me curious would shooting a complex drive actually work to for always destroy the facts? I recommended shooting the hard drive, I've used them for target practice formerly with righteous results, but I just want to be completely sure.
Answers:
Basically the captivating cyclinder inside the hard drive is what requirements to be destroyed. You can destroy it however you want but if that cyclinder stays intact after the pros can recover anything.
possible, but it would be really tough to assemble all the peice together.
It would be so much better if you basically use a super magnet to just wipe the background of the drive, since traditional hard drives store facts on magnetic disks.
Uhhh, yeah. Duh! What the heck be you thinking? Of course it can, but only near a super-collider mega duper micron orbiter.
The last I hear, there exist a company that melt the hard drives into fluid and it's the most effective mode to destroy adjectives data. Apparently their ovens are resembling Hell temperature.
shot the drive once near a .30 caliber rifle bullet?
--- Yes
shot it half a dozen times beside a 9mm handgun?
--- Yes
used it as a clay pigeon for my shotgun (buckshot)?
--- Yes
removed the drive cover and bashed the platters next to a ball peen tack hammer?
--- Yes
set it on fire for 1/2 hour next to gasoline?
--- Yes
set off 3 grams of thermite on it?
--- Yes
open the drive and set off an M80 on top the platters?
--- Yes
used a soldering gun (degauss device) to attempt to corrupt the facts?
--- Yes
knifed the drive platters directly? (stabbing or slashing the platters)
--- Yes
used 80grit sand quality newspaper on the drive platters
--- Yes
dropped a drive with the cover removed into a sulfuric tart bath?
--- No
put a stick of dynamite beneath the drive and set if off?
--- Yes
weld a chain to the drive and drug it losing my car on the freeway for a couple hours (average day's commute to the city)?
--- Yes
stuck the open drive in the dishwasher?
--- Yes
poured circuit board etching solution into an open drive?
--- No
zapped the drive with a tesla coil?
--- Definitely no.
run it over with a cistern?
--- Yes
threw it off a plane at 500 foot and 180 mph? (onto hard pavement)
--- Yes
Google "information recovery" and you will find hundreds of companies that specialize in facts recovery. With specialized equipment, it is still possible to read the data from a bungled hard drive. It's even possible to read background from sectors that hold been written over because they retain a slight alluring presence of previously written data. It requires outstandingly sensitive equipment to measure low enigmatic signatures like that though.
so concerning your question in the region of data recovery from a sturdy drive thats been shot, burned and gaussed.
if someone, really really desires the information on it, yes. there are forensic IT guys and companies whose sole business model is determine what porn, bent and immoral business practices you may own done.
Ive dealt near companies that have taken computers and knotty drives apart, after the platters have be seized, or burned and gassed and restored some except all the background.
It comes down to a matter of *price* how desperate does someone really want that information.
what people dont fathom out is the electronic trail they leave losing where they dance on the web thats tied to an IP address on the unyielding drive. even if you are successful hiding most of the data, you gone a trail where you dance, and thats just as incriminating and destructive as the tough drive....lol
so think twice around what you do.. ;)
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