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BenDataRecovery

Post subject: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 18th, 2016, 13:58

Joined: July 22nd, 2015, 10:29
Posts: 80
Location: Germany/Stuttgart

Customer wrote me that he had thrown the HDD in my Mailbox. The result below...

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 18th, 2016, 18:04

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
Posts: 6828
Location: UK

Wow, what an idiot!!

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HaQue

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 19th, 2016, 7:00

Joined: December 4th, 2012, 1:35
Posts: 2839
Location: Adelaide, Australia

sometimes it takes a few seconds for it to sink in that someone could be so oblivious.. I guess if it was stuck heads it may now be fixed!!

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Spildit

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 19th, 2016, 8:10

Joined: December 19th, 2006, 8:49
Posts: 7759
Location: Portugal

What ? A FULL HDD ? Didn't they know that they could have just dropped the platters on the mailbox ?

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BenDataRecovery

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 19th, 2016, 8:34

Joined: July 22nd, 2015, 10:29
Posts: 80
Location: Germany/Stuttgart

Luckily it was the HDD the customer wanted me to store the recovered data on it and it was not the faulty drive. After we connected the drive to a Windows Notebook to check the data a Windows Warning came up something telling like that "The drive has severe issues - backup your data quick"

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MindMergepk

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 19th, 2016, 15:19

Joined: December 8th, 2013, 4:48
Posts: 615
Location: Pakistan

a last DIY attempt may be :lol:

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Pritam

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 30th, 2017, 5:16

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Joined: March 30th, 2017, 4:36
Posts: 1
Location: India

That looks fun

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data-medics

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: March 30th, 2017, 8:12

Joined: April 3rd, 2011, 0:19
Posts: 1559
Location: Providence, RI

I've got so many stories like this I'd love to post, but I usually don't just in case my customer happens to be trolling the data recovery forums. I usually wait until a few months after the case is closed to even mention these sort of idiotic things customers do.

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digitalferret

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: April 2nd, 2017, 22:19

Joined: August 26th, 2012, 19:18
Posts: 276
Location: England

even the pro posties =)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... arcel-loo/

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rony albert

Post subject: Re: HDD thrown in a Mailbox

Posted: April 8th, 2017, 6:50

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Joined: March 29th, 2017, 4:59
Posts: 1
Location: georgia

O that sounds it fun to be young... :lol:

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