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I know this is a subject that concerns people, so I thought I'd share a discovery I made this morning. Spilling a can of Diet RC will render the data on that old hard drive pretty much useless.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:06 am Post subject:

No it won't.

I've recovered data from far worse situations. Soda is a PITA though (not as bad as fire or some of the more interesting acids out there.

Nuke it from orbit... just to be sure.

(or just use something like White Canyon's WipeDrive)
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JimRon · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:21 am Post subject:

i always found a hammer and nail did a good job.
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georgethetech · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

Try this:
http://www.filedudes.com/files/Shred_Drive.html

Or this:

http://www.backthruthefuture.com/safe_harbor.php
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I've found many times that installing Windows is a good way of rendering a hard drive useless.....

JimRon · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject:

HA!!! good one there steve... Laugh

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georgethetech · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject:

Yoda117 · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:18 am Post subject:

laugh now, but they're preparing to use an online subscription service for the next OS. If it's as advertised, I'll be making a permanent move back to Mac.
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Brad Venable · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject:

SimondsSays · Guest

The nail and hammer is one of the best ways to permanently remove data from any hard drive. .22's work well too, but use high power rounds so they penetrate and don't bounce off. Anything with sugar is a VG corrosive to any computer gear. If you ever spill any liquid on any computer, lunge for th epower cord and unplug it and you may save it. If it is a laptop, immediately yank the power, flip it upside down and remove the battery. If it is a sugary liquid you may be screwed no matter what. You need to get the sugary OFF by rinsing with water, but then this can also do damage if all power isn't removed. We have had success in the past by flushing a laptop, without the hard drive or batt in it and then baking on low low temp in an oven for a few days to drive out the moisture.

Remember:

1 - All computers suck and all hard drives will die. Start there and you will never be disappointed in anything they do or don't do.

2- Always use a battery backup on all computer gear.

3 - Use multiple external data storage devises because of rule number one.

4 - Macs are thee same hardware as PC's now.

5 - Avoid Vista at all costs. "ME-The Sequel"... despite MS's best effort to tell us the emperors new clothes are fabulous, most of us know his willie is showing.

ps.... after 15 years repairing PC's, not only do they suck, but we saw enough Mac issues rolling through to say that they also suck.

Hobo Tounge

s - Most pc issues can be resolved by tuning the system to the needs of the persons task. If you are running a work computer, don;t load games, chat programs or ANYTHING else on it.. no weather bug, no anitvirus or extra foofy things... no screens saver, no start ups... nada.... sooo many times I have dealt with machines that come in as useless pieces of crap and go out running wonderful, and all I did was remove what they had done to it and tune it up to allow the computer to properly address the real need of getting work done.

P Hobo Tounge

S... OK so one more... We made significant revenue on a sickness computers would get called "teenager disease".. this results when said teenagers load any and everything they can on the computer, say yes to prompts and pron sites and load the wrong MySpace page. If you value you your work and computer NEVER let your children, relatives of ANYONE else touch your computer.

( stomps soap box to kindling, starts a fire and meanders off)

tackerman · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:21 am Post subject:

I've got one of these in the next room...

SimondsSays · Guest

as the fine gentleman has demonstrated, expose that drive to a really big magnet!!!

( and keep those magnetic cards off the computer case!!!! They belong on the fridge)

cool

ccpetersen · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:39 am Post subject:

Oh, I knew that degausser we have in our studio would do the trick!

Here's one for you windows fans... from www.klingon.org

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