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Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive
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BL was referring to using powerful magnets to damage the HD.

And no, you can't really know the firmware version with out mounting.

If the drive won't boot on a PC, you *might* be able to carefully remove it from the enclosure and see if it will boot if connected as an internal drive, or in a different enclosure.

These days, I'd almost consider an HD warranty worthless if you keep anything of value on the drive. Since you can't know when a drive will fail, you will almost never have a chance to back up and wipe the HD before it dies.

If your HD has personal financial information or *special* pics, you might want to consider it disposable and smash the HD with a BFH, Kate.

I don't know if a microwave would damage the platters or just the circuit board.
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Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by Kate - 03-09-2009, 10:02 PM
Re: Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by Carm - 03-09-2009, 10:15 PM
Re: Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by Black - 03-09-2009, 10:52 PM
Re: Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by crispy - 03-09-2009, 10:52 PM
Re: Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by Kate - 03-09-2009, 11:02 PM
Re: Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by RAMd®d - 03-09-2009, 11:37 PM
Re: Wiping an Unmountable Hard Drive - by Black - 03-10-2009, 01:55 AM

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