Can this HDD be recovered?

magnusivarsson

New member
I am asking these questions out of curiosity.

Some time ago i left my old computer hard drives at the recycling station, and I am just wondering if it's possible for someone to recover data from them.

Old Seagate harddrive.
Was first erased with DBAN, but crashed during the process. Couldn't recover it again and not sure if it was the head that was faulty or something else, it was simply not starting again.
After this I decided to destroy it to simply throw it away, but forgot to make holes to it with a power drill, but scratched the platter for about 3 minutes and also used something to bend the platter severely with. It looks about the same as the one on this picture;

depositphotos_80726018-stock-photo-scratched-hard-drive-platter.jpg


Highly appreciated.
 

Jared

Administrator
Staff member
magnusivarsson":p3rb0xf1 said:
[post]14345[/post] Was first erased with DBAN

It was 100% unrecoverable by all present and future data recovery tech after just this one step. Everything else you did was totally redundant and wasteful.
 

magnusivarsson

New member
Jared":3f6ff4o6 said:
magnusivarsson":3f6ff4o6 said:
[post]14345[/post] Was first erased with DBAN

It was 100% unrecoverable by all present and future data recovery tech after just this one step. Everything else you did was totally redundant and wasteful.

Thanks for ur reply.
Yes, I understand that, just got worried when the drive crashed during the process that it wouldnt be succesful, thats why i bent it and scratched it like i did.
 

lcoughey

Moderator
Sorry...somehow your post showed up for moderation twice on the Recovery Force forums...the first time I approved, but the second I disapproved, thinking it was a duplicate. Either way, you have your answers.
 

Blizzard

Member
In our "spare" time we work on low budget movie projects and, just like you see in the big budget TV shows, we can totally recover the data on the drive in your picture using a special wand :)
[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28MC5LzS3xg[/bbvideo]
And we can defeat most encryption with a hammer too :)
[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcOOygDHY-0[/bbvideo]
 

karimmopa

New member
lcoughey":imtvdjhb said:
Sorry...somehow your post showed up for moderation twice on the Recovery Force forums...the first time I approved, but the second I disapproved, thinking it was a duplicate. Either way, you have your answers.
Was first erased with DBAN, but crashed during the process. Couldn't recover it again and not sure if it was the head that was faulty or something else, it was simply not starting again.
 

Jared

Administrator
Staff member
Blizzard":24mjpecs said:
In our "spare" time we work on low budget movie projects and, just like you see in the big budget TV shows, we can totally recover the data on the drive in your picture using a special wand :)
[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28MC5LzS3xg[/bbvideo]
And we can defeat most encryption with a hammer too :)
[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcOOygDHY-0[/bbvideo]
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