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 Post subject: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 11:30 
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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. :D


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rogfanther
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 11:50 
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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.
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MasterHDD
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
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Looks like a WW2 artifact of some kind :lol:

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jermy
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 12:09 
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I would very much like to have it on my wall
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dick
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 14:45 
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That 'liquid' is known as hdd regeneration fluid. You can obtain it at any hardware store. :lol:
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unknown
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 14:47 
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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.
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LarrySabo
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 17:30 
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rogfanther wrote:
Just another normal day then.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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northwind
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 1:47 
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It is recoverable. All you have to do is invent a time machine.

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Masterclass
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 3:34 
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northwind wrote:
It is recoverable.

Some bytes can be recovered. 0x55 0xAA in LBA0 :D
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PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 8:12 
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Masterclass wrote:
northwind wrote:
It is recoverable.

Some bytes can be recovered. 0x55 0xAA in LBA0 :D

:mrgreen:

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D_R
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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.
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unknown
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 10:24 
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Could someone recover data from two pieces of glass?
The problem that the platters returned to it's original state without any magnetic field.
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D_R
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
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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=2m12s

It looks much worse than your drive.
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unknown
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 13:48 
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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=2m12s

It 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.
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rogfanther
 Post subject: Re: Momentos 5400.6 R.I.P
PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 18:15 
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Yes. And they weren´t opened
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