On Jul 16, 5:29 pm, Bob I <bire...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 2:44 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>Joe wrote:
>
> >>>a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
> >>>giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
> >>>external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as adrive.
> >>>Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the
> >>>information through some more sophisticated means?
>
> >>'clicks madly'...
> >>Dead.
>
> >>You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
> >>$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
> >>quickly gets your data off. heh
>
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> >>Shenan Stanley
> >> MS-MVP
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>
> > Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with
> > the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone
> > with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal
> > data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the
> > data?
>
> Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery.
Unfortunately the computer is not mine, it's a company computer but I
do not know what they are going to do with the hard drive/computer
once I send it back to them. For all I know they will sell it to some
third party and end up on ebay. I cannot get to the hard drive, it's
corrupt so the best I can think is to place a large magnet on it for a
night.