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Making a Hard Drive Corrupt

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Mayfriday0529

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How could one make a Hard Drive crash or corrupt to the point that data can't be recovered easily without physical damage? Also without leaving any evidence.

Magnets? drop in water?
 
Yes to magnets and water, - add fire, dropping so that high G forces beyond spec are experienced, hit it with a hammer a few times, run over it with a truck, put it in an acid bath, . . . or let my wife use it. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Yes to magnets and water, - add fire, dropping so that high G forces beyond spec are experienced, hit it with a hammer a few times, run over it with a truck, put it in an acid bath, . . . or let my wife use it. 🙂
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Without leaving physical damage evidence.
 
Originally posted by: Jnetty99
How could one make a Hard Drive crash or corrupt to the point that data can't be recovered easily without physical damage?
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Put a "Maxtor" label on it? 🙁
 
We microwaved my friends HD, needless to say, it blew up badddd! Don't try it though!

Water and magnets from above post! 😀
 
heres what I do. Boot HD up, run defrag on the drive, get a hammer (seriously) and on a flat side of the drive put some thin foam or rubber and whack with the hammer a bunch of times. Eventually the heads will go out of whack and the OS will get fubared and if done right you wont have any marks on the drive. Or 2 seconds in a microwave.
 
if you only want software options you can type 'cipher /W:C:/' in a windows XP profesional terminal and that will overwrite all of the free space on your harddrive with garbage. Also try 'deriks boot and nuke'
 
this sounds like fraud....... without leaving any "physical evidence"

I thought HD's were air tight? I also thought magnets destroying data was a myth

The same goes for hard drives. The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate. "In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,116572-page,1-c,consumeradvice/article.html

actually it looks like HD's are not airtight. The magnet thing seems to be true coming from a Seagate Engineer.
 
It sounds like a myth to me too but I thought I would throw it in.......who knows why he wants to zero out a drive. Maybe he's unhappy at work and wants to leave them a present.
 
I'd just download a program that does a clean wipe this way the HD would not be broken and still use able.

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Put a "Maxtor" label on it? 🙁
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oooooooooooohhhhhhhh! ROFL......
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That was pretty funny :-D
 
Originally posted by: w00t
this sounds like fraud....... without leaving any "physical evidence"
It probably is fraud, but then again he might be a guy with a computer shop that wants to showcase a HDD.

If it ever gets stolen from the case or window, well they can just have a good laugh about it becuase the suckers risked jail for nothing. They'd want there to be no physical evidence because you can't very well have a beaten piece of junk sitting in a display case.

That's the trouble with knowledge, it can be used for anything in the world, good or bad.
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Originally posted by: noagname
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Write 0's to the whole drive multiple times?
Install Windows Me on it?
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how do you put 0's in it


and why do you want to destroy it
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Apple has a built in program that writes data to the drive to make it hard to recover

They have programs like this for windows that have the same concept

good question that hasn't really been answered.
 
A hard drive cannot be air tight, or it wouldn't work. Look at the vent hole usually says " Warranty void if blocked "

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