Timeline for How can I wipe a broken hard disk drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for maintenance?
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 2:49 | history | edited | Scott - Слава Україні | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Mar 14, 2018 at 2:45 | history | suggested | Pang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed dead link (old link gives "THE PAGE YOU’RE LOOKING FOR CAN’T BE FOUND. Error 404"; new link has same content, verified with https://web.archive.org/web/20130723044149/http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml)
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 23:39 | comment | added | fluffy | Also, remember that if anyone (and that won't necessarily be the RMA recipient!) really wants to get your data, they don't even need a working motor/logic board/whatever - at the very least they can swap the platters with those in a working drive of the same model, and serious hard-core data recovery tools can even get the data off of raw shattered platters. This is why top-secret government data is generally removed from hard drives with an industrial shredder. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 22:28 | comment | added | mjrider | oh! didnt know that...Cool! | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | Blackbeagle | @mjrider - When you buy a new drive, it doesn't have an OS, but you can still access it to put on the OS. The software works in the same way - it doesn't matter if there is an OS on it or not, as long as the SATA channel is active and you can see the device and it answers, you should be able to flip the bit. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 19:38 | comment | added | Blackbeagle | @Kevin - if you sent the drive back to say - Dell - they wouldn't be able, nor likely even interested in trying to replace the logic board. Maybe the original drive manufacturer could, but not the OEM. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 15:39 | comment | added | mjrider | and if he cant access the drive from the os (unless you can see it in bios) I dont know how you can access this function | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 15:12 | comment | added | 700 Software | Very interesting! | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 23:21 | comment | added | Kevin | This is useful information (+1), but it seems like it doesn't directly answer this question since the manufacturer actually is in a position to replace the entire logic board. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 21:48 | history | answered | Blackbeagle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |