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June 7th, 2018, 11:30
Hello
A customer came to me today with this ( thing ). He was putting the drive in tissues. After some investigating he said that he gave it to someone and that ( someone ) put something ( liquid ) on the drive ( both sides front label and PCB side ) two weeks ago.
Then he surprised when bring the drive from the tissues.
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June 7th, 2018, 11:50
Seems that "someone" put acid in the poor thing.
And, obviously, the customer doesn´t know when/who/where/why it happened ....
Just another normal day then.
June 7th, 2018, 11:50
Looks like a WW2 artifact of some kind
June 7th, 2018, 12:09
I would very much like to have it on my wall
June 7th, 2018, 14:45
That 'liquid' is known as hdd regeneration fluid. You can obtain it at any hardware store.
June 7th, 2018, 14:47
rogfanther wrote:Seems that "someone" put acid in the poor thing.
And, obviously, the customer doesn´t know when/who/where/why it happened ....
Just another normal day then.
I told the customer that this must be some kind of acid. (brutal acid indeed) the top cover was totally ruined.
June 8th, 2018, 1:47
It is recoverable. All you have to do is invent a time machine.
June 8th, 2018, 3:34
northwind wrote:It is recoverable.
Some bytes can be recovered. 0x55 0xAA in LBA0
June 8th, 2018, 8:12
Masterclass wrote:northwind wrote:It is recoverable.
Some bytes can be recovered. 0x55 0xAA in LBA0
June 8th, 2018, 8:19
northwind wrote:It is recoverable. All you have to do is invent a time machine.
Well, if Convar was able to recover the WTC drives, this should be a piece of cake.
June 8th, 2018, 10:24
Could someone recover data from two pieces of glass?
The problem that the platters returned to it's original state without any magnetic field.
June 8th, 2018, 12:10
unknown wrote:Could someone recover data from two pieces of glass?
The problem that the platters returned to it's original state without any magnetic field.
Take a look on this drive here:
https://youtu.be/WiG4vAOIhbA?t=2m12sIt looks much worse than your drive.
June 8th, 2018, 13:48
D_R wrote:unknown wrote:Could someone recover data from two pieces of glass?
The problem that the platters returned to it's original state without any magnetic field.
Take a look on this drive here:
https://youtu.be/WiG4vAOIhbA?t=2m12sIt looks much worse than your drive.
I don't think so.
WTC drives was suffering from debris, dust, burnt...etc.
But not acid into platters for two weeks.
June 8th, 2018, 18:15
Yes. And they weren´t opened
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