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May 9th, 2005, 12:22 PM
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Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
If you do have way too much time on your hands then you can get anything of almost any HD. I remember the story of the data recovery firm that specialised in recovering vital data from utterly wrecked drives. Everything from torched drives to magnetically wiped ones.
The details are hazy but I do the guy saying there was no drive he couldn't recover data from given time and, of course, money.
Having said that a decent format and a re-writing over the entire disk should do it unless you're really paranoid or have the bad luck to sell it to someone with too much time on their hands who is out to get you.
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May 9th, 2005, 12:32 PM
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Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
Do not attempt to format/rewrite by yourself to clear a harddrive. Use the software. The software completely writes 0's , 1's, random, etc over the entire harddrive in several passes. Don't be surprised if it takes several hours to complete the wiping. Most software allows you to set the number of passes. There are those who say that they can recover data from such wiped harddrives, but without getting specific here, I can say that this method is used by many "companies" in the world to destroy sensitive data - and it is a very secure method.
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May 9th, 2005, 12:49 PM
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Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
Oh yeah of course you should get software to do it. Should have made that clear. Would these be the same "companies" that leave laptops full of sensitive stuff on trains, throw out whole computers and sell unformated hard drives on EBay? 
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May 9th, 2005, 12:50 PM
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Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
Use them to play old games?
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May 9th, 2005, 04:41 PM
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Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
us it as a small family webserver (if your ISP allows this) if you're a software developer even nicer things could be done with it (CVS repository, etc) |
May 9th, 2005, 05:17 PM
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Re: OT: Old Computer Parts
Don't tell the ISP about it and don't use port 80. They will probably never find out. |
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