FYI, if you need any of that data you can sometimes recover it by putting them in the freezer inside a ziplock bag for about 30 minutes first. You'll then sometimes get about 5-10min of time to get your data off.
Chris Berry Linux Systems Administrator Davis Tool x521 >>> "Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> 6/21/2012 3:19 PM >>> I have a stack of failed hard drives, each of which has failed sometime in the ancient past (maybe as long ago as the '90s). The only reason I still have them is that there is personal data on them. I realize that if they failed it is unlikely they could be recovered without expensive equipment, but I'm wondering if the best thing to do is to convert them to blocks of aluminum with holes in them. I'm thinking that I could drill a hole through each one of them before sending them to recycling and the old data will be hard to get, even with the expensive equipment. Any better ideas? -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
