Re: Ways to *REALLY* erase a hard drive?

From: Keith Williams (krw_at_att.bizzzz)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:07:46 -0500

In article <cuhtl3$k7p$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>, "Paul \( Skiing8
\)" <skiing@dodgit.com> says...
> "John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in
> message news:1i2o01ldnhn3e5d2pu30hno7rpdkvep2ks@4ax.com...
> > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:58:03 GMT, "Greysky"
> > <greyskynospam@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > >I recently had a 80 gig Maxtor hard drive die on me. Though it was still
> > >under warranty (just) I decided a much better use for it was to turn it
> into
> > >a show-and-tell for the local elementary school kids. I finally managed
> to
> > >get the cover off the thing, exposing the inner platters. Someone told me
> a
> > >Torx 10 would fit those crazy screws on the cover plate - they were
> wrong.
> > >I had to drill them off. Now, I need to know a sure fire way of wiping
> data
> > >off the platters for good. The machine died before I could erase it
> inside
> > >the computer, so far I have a bunch of 'super magnets' which I dropped
> > >directly onto the platters and let them stay there overnight. Do you
> think
> > >this is enough? I would like to get them as deleted as I can possibly get
> > >them, but still be able to use the drive as a demonstration device for
> the
> > >kids. Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Just bend the platters a tiny bit.
> >
> > What's on them, anyhow?
> >
> > John
> >
>
> be carefull, we had a drive and when we removed the cover and was in the
> process of messing around with it the platter just shattered into a load of
> shards, it was like glass. Sonds strange I know but thats exactly what it
> was like
>
Probably because that what it was.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/library/whitepap/glassdisk/whiteglass.htm 

-- 
  Keith

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