Hey.

I decided that it's about time to wipe my old disks and/or encrypt data on them.

One of them (HDD Seagate 7200.12) won't boot. After you plug power connector to it you can head that it starts to spin for around 1 second, then it stops, spin again, stops, spin, stops and so on.

I'm not sure what causes this but I don't mind recovering any data from it nor making this HDD useful although I'd like to wipe all data that it contained either using software (I have LLF from your site purchased) or physically (not prefered since I can't be sure that data is unrecoverable).


thanks
Mike

Hi.

As said it's not important to me to recover the data.
I just thought I'll be able to save this hdd (dont like to throw away stuff).

I have already done what you suggested with other IDE HDD's. Unfortunatelly I don't have any automatic tools so I'm left with hammer only.

Thanks!!

If you want to to Wipe, the best in your case is a hammer as you said. (magentizer and other tools are expensive)