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This is the way to guarantee the data is gone. I used to support the IT dept of a very large retailer. When we upgraded the POS devices at our stores, the old devices had customer information, PHI, and credit card data on them. So, for the vendor who did the deinstall of the old stations, we wrote into the contract that each drive had to be removed from the device and have four screws drilled through it. This had to be done in the store in the presence of the store manager. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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.73 caliber 1 oz slug. A few times. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Been said before, removing the drive is simple and usually only involves a few screws and a connector or two. It is practical and cheap to buy a case and reuse the drive as a backup drive or dedicated drive for other purposes. While at it, recover the laptop ram, you never know, it might turn into someone 's happy karma. 0-0 "OP is a troll" - Flashlightboy, 12/18/20 | |||
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Great replies. And in less than 24 hours. I have some time on my hands these days (after what's already in my queue), I'll consider which options I'll take. Ensigmatic's proposal that it might be just a bad battery sounds plausible, also. It's also interesting to learn SSD's have a higher data latency which is counter-intuitive to me. Using bullets is out of the question although the thought reminds me of playing Hickok while doing so. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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That doesn't help the OP, he stated he's got a dead laptop with a bad motherboard. | |||
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First thing to try is to pull the battery and try to fire the laptop up that way; I've had a laptop with a battery so bad and an adapter so wimpy, it could either charge the battery or run the laptop, but not both. If it works, you can snag whatever data you want, then decide whether to obliterate the drive. === I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. | |||
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Any 2.5" (laptop) SATA drive can be accessed with the adapter back from a external similarly sized drive like Seagate or Toshiba and others. Many portable external USB SATA drives have a SATA adapter/connector that plugs into the drive inside the case and it fits right into a bare drive. That's how I set up and repair drives in similar situations. As detroit192 mentioned, you can also buy a cheap adapter on ebay that will allow you to connect older IDE or SATA and other type bare drives. | |||
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That's because SSDs have spare blocks and do "wear levelling" by swapping which blocks are actually in use at any given time. So, when you erase or overwrite data, a copy of that data may still be on blocks that have been swapped into "spare" space at the time. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I did mine by removing the hard drive and erasing it manually with a 2lb engineer's hammer. | |||
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If you're squeamish about killing hard drives, you may be able to find a place like this: Secure hard drive shredding - watch while you wait _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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call Hilary! shes good at that | |||
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Armed and Gregarious |
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...450074324#7450074324 ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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Itchy was taken |
15 rounds of 338 Lapua followed up by a sledge hammer to fold it will discourage most data thieves. _________________ This space left intentionally blank. | |||
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You can get an adapter for the drive to connect it to your other system. Pull anything you want off it. If you're able to connect it directly (SATA, IDE, etc.), you can then boot up several USB bootable programs to run an erase. It is what I did on numerous servers at work. Email me if you want additional information. | |||
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I have disassembled them to remove the discs, then shattered the discs. There are some small, but very powerful magnets in the drive that I've recovered. | |||
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Just dunk it in saltwater for a day. It will be ruined beyond any recovery. | |||
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I test fired my new P320 on some old hard drives I wanted to dispose of.    When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21 "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush | |||
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They look bullet-proof I should be tall and rich too; That ain't gonna happen either | |||
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