Make your own grinder from an old hard drive

[christoph clark]

Make your own grinder from an old hard drive LOL. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFMhy1QiPw&feature=related

 

[tnimble]

Creative idea.

Strangely enough after watching the video I've a longing for guys and oldish cars. :?

 

[wizer]

Clever, Interesting, but why?

 

[kafkaian]

Clever, Interesting, but why?

Why not?

Probably plenty of reasons actually :lol: :lol:

 

[Michael7]

I just threw out 3 or 4 harddrives last week that had been up in the attic for years. i could have had a bit of fun with them

 

[George_N]

I just threw out 3 or 4 harddrives last week that had been up in the attic for years. i could have had a bit of fun with them

It's worth stripping old HDDs for the rare earth magnets out of the voice coil. So useful for all sorts of things in the workshop.

 

[brianhabby]

I just threw out 3 or 4 harddrives last week that had been up in the attic for years. i could have had a bit of fun with them

There was a program on BBC1 a couple of weeks ago talking about Identity Theft. The program highlighted the fact that many thousands of computers and hard drives that appear to have failed are simply discarded to the local recycling centre.

The experts on the program took several hard drives and very easily recovered loads of personal data from them.

Just because you cannot read your hard disk any more doesn't mean others can't - beware. The only way to ensure your data is really safe is to physically destroy the hard disk.

Don't want to frighten anyone but it's worth thinking about.

regards

Brian

 

[TonyW]

Just because you cannot read your hard disk any more doesn't mean others can't - beware. The only way to ensure your data is really safe is to physically destroy the hard disk.

Don't want to frighten anyone but it's worth thinking about.

regards

Brian

Absolutely agree, even after formatting, data can be recovered by using the correct software. Recently looked like I had lost hard disk containing around 50Gb personal data. Although the disk appeared unused with no formatting I was able to recover all the important files. So physically destroying HD seems to be the best policy if you have had personal info on it.

Cheers
Tony

 

[tnimble]

Very much true. Formatting the disk (really formatting that is, which takes about a couple of hours) or destroying it is very recommended. Easiest way to destroy the disk is to hook it up to a power supply and hit it hard a couple times while the disk is accessed. Although frying the disk electronics would suffice against most 'morally challenged' people.

 

[Michael7]

I drove a nail punch a few times into each drive so I'm sure nothing is retrievable

 

[llangatwgnedd]

The hard drive on my laptop packed in fortnight ago and I replaced it with a second hand one of e bay, so how do I go about retrieving a few photo's off the old one?

 

[TonyW]

The hard drive on my laptop packed in fortnight ago and I replaced it with a second hand one of e bay, so how do I go about retrieving a few photo's off the old one?

When you say your hard drive packed in do you mean that it failed mechanically or that you were unable to access the data on it?

Is the drive physically recognised in Windows - even if it appears to contain no data? If it is you have a good chance of data recovery.

Now it depends on how you want to tackle this.
You can opt to send it to a specialist firm who will probably charge around £80 -£100 or look for some software to do the job yourself.

If you opt to try yourself you will probably have to purchase software (dont know of any share/freeware that works). I have tried 2 different packages both worked very well in my case:
Stellar Phoenix http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-re ... Qgod9kBo-Q
You can download this and run it as demo. It will highlight recoverable data and even save information to a file. To actually recover data you will need to purchase licence - from memory this was around $80. Once you buy the licence you will be issued a key to activate your demo copy and use the file you saved to start the real recovery process.

The other one is R -Studio. http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ This is the one I used to recover my data. The main reason for using this one is that it cost me nothing due to a colleague having this on his system so did not have to find the $80 fee.

Cheers
Tony

 

[christoph clark]

I replaced it with a second hand one of e bay, so how do I go about retrieving a few photo's off the old one?

Why not try and see what you can recover from the second hand one you bought. :shock:

 

[brianhabby]

If anyone is thinking of having a go at retrieving corrupt and/or lost data remember the first rule of data recovery - Don't write anything to the suspect disk and that includes erasing anything.

If you write anything to the disk you would almost certainly make it more difficult to recover your data.

regards

Brian

 

[llangatwgnedd]

Thanks for the replys everyone,
Sounds a bit to techinal for me ,and the pictures I wanted are really not that important.

Probably rip the magnets out, might come handy.