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Kevin Destroys a hard drive in acid and also with thermite... wile almost burning down his naborhood

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: October 12, 2006 at 12:15 am
Author: cwestside

Length: 00:05:06
Rating: 4.42
Views: 8457

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numbing numbered numerous Comments:
EyesExplode (November 14, 2008 at 6:57 am)
Fantastic. Thermite is the only way that there is no way to recover anything. It basically amounts to melting the metal in the drive itself.

That said, get a big, solid box of tungsten, set your computer in that, and pack thermite around it. Leave an exhaust vent going outside. You could set that off, in your house, and it would vent fumes outside, and the tungsten case would keep the thermite from buring down your house.

Tungsten is hella expensive though.
mistahtom (May 6, 2008 at 12:34 am)
Lern too spell NEIGHBORHOOD and WHILE dummy
EatOoze (March 13, 2008 at 12:27 am)
Even if the hard drive would have survived and the disks recoverable, the temperature is way past the Curie point, so even if the disk was intact (which it wasn't), the disk would be demagnetized.
fumatu (September 10, 2007 at 5:04 am)
it's called formating, it won't hurt nobody ;)
cwestside (September 10, 2007 at 9:59 am)
formatting is recoverable. government spec is to destroy the platters. ie grind them in to sand
Assi2004 (January 7, 2008 at 12:27 pm)
just rewrite whit zeros...
there are programs for that, eg. from western digital
MD2389 (February 5, 2008 at 12:55 am)
You can actually still recover data from that. DOD spec I believe is to write data to a given sector(s) atleast 5 - 7 times before its "gone". A simple low-level format (which is what you described) is not sufficient.
Assi2004 (February 5, 2008 at 1:17 am)
it not a low-lvl format?
its no high-lvl formatting too
thats a very different beast!
go check wikipedia or any other side if u dont believe me


and now u tell me, how to recover data from that!
KelynTyme (December 18, 2008 at 7:41 am)
The method I've heard of to retrieve data from a formatted disk that someone with a lot of money to throw at it (government?) can use involved an electron microscope.
Look at the disk, see where the faint differences in charge are still at, and map the data off of that.

That being said, I have no idea of the actual process, as that is FAR beyond my needs, and I highly doubt that anything I'm likely to have on my hard drive would merit anything that interesting.
cwestside (June 6, 2007 at 10:46 am)
go ahead try and microwave a plater from a HDD nothing will happen same thing happens when you put a spoon in the microwave if there is no ARC nothing happens try crinkling up some tin foil and throw it in and you will see what happens when theres an ARC