ste_p23
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Which part of a computer holds data apart from the hard drive?
Reason im asking is ive got a nackered old pc but its had alot of my familys business accounts etc on it! Im gona strip it apart and just scrap it but i was just wondering is it just the hard drive that needs destroying or do other things such as the memory still hold any info?
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John
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Hard drive is the only thing worth destroying.
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N3CRO
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Hard drive is the only thing worth destroying.
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oceansoul
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we run over old computers with the land rover at work..
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noshua
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Or you could just take the hard drive out and destroy it.
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XSIHardy
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if getting ridd off the whole "tower" nd u need none off it and ur realy paranoid ... burn it?
but yeh hardrive is you main worry, ram just temp stores stuff
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Leighton
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Hard drive is the only place were it is saved, driving over it with any car or setting fire to it will not completly erase the data. we have a section in out warehouse that recovers info from laptops that the MOD use and they come back burnt and with bullet holes in and the data is still recovered. only way to do it is to use a very strong magnet.
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John
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He won't have a strong enough magnet lying about the house.
If it's physically broken as in the platters snapped nobody will be getting any data off it.
If it's damaged a bit and thrown in the bin nobody will be trying to pull anything off it anyway.
There is always the option of smelting it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMlZ0eaPc8I&feature=related
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Leighton
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quote:
Originally posted by John
He won't have a strong enough magnet lying about the house.
Thats the good things about HHD's they have the power within them, there are 2 verry strong magnets in the HDD that can do the job  
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John
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Are they strong enough?
Last time I was looking at this a company had just developed some magnets strong enough to destroy the drive, that was through the casing right enough.
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Neo
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If your that paranoid, download an application that will do a gutmann pass on the drive after you have formatted it, then keep the drive in a box in your loft.
[Edited on 27-08-2009 by Neo]
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John
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Andrew says he can get data off a drive that has been properly wiped with something like a gutmann pass 
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colour_golden
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sling it in the sea!
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moka
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7816446.stm
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moka
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Just smash the fuck out of it with the casing off ... watch video above.
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oceansoul
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format then gutmann thing it, then run over it in a truck, then burn it, then smash the fuck outta it with the case off, then tie it to a big rock and drop in the middle of the sea
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Neo
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Andrew says he can get data off a drive that has been properly wiped with something like a gutmann pass
Probably can yes, however like i said just stick it in your loft or somewhere and dont get rid. Or take apart and use the platters to make a nice shiny ornament/coffee coasters etc
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Shane
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how about strapping some C4 to it or giving it to North Korea to do strap to a nuclear rocket?
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Scotty_B
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Hire a boat and throw it in the ocean.
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oceansoul
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just eat it
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stan_the_man
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Originally posted by oceansoul
just eat it
LMFAO!! I actually LOL'd at that.
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Half Pint
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i usually pull them apart and use the disk as a tea coster...
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Daveskater
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quote:
Originally posted by XSIHardy
if getting ridd off the whole "tower" nd u need none off it and ur realy paranoid ... burn it?
Not a great idea with the silicone in the components.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Sam
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Can't you just do a low level format on the drive?
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xXx_Nova_xXx
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Burn it FTW!
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