On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:13:36 -0700
Margaret Chesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with Chad. Whatever happened to running a rare earth magnet over the
> hard drive? Quick, easy, and devastating to data without ruining the integrity
> of the drive, from what I understand. Never had a chance to try it myself, but
> it always seems to work in the movies.
A lot of things seem to work in the movies. Where did you learn that?
>From McGyver? Sounds like something stupid he would do. Let me tell
you what happens in real life. We tried that a couple of times at
the office. We don't know what happened to the data, but we do know
that it sure did mess up the read/write heads. Both of the hard drives
were destroyed. All we wanted to do was to destroy only the data. We
wanted to reformat and re-use the drives. This experiment was
conducted by highly experienced government-trained technicians. Don't
try this at home.
Sam Heywood
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