computer recycling - How to wipe a hard drive with only a screw driver
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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How To Wipe A Hard Drive With Only A Screw Driver
DIY Fast & Easy Hard Drive Wipe
Note, this does not stop all levels of forensic data recovery.
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This is exactly what I was looking for. My old laptop doesn't even turn on, so I needed a more brutalistic approach to ensuring my old data was gone.
What do you have, Giorno Giovanna trying to uncover your identity or something?
Does it keep the operating system?
@@erimmcsherry354 I didn't get the reference so I googled it, risking it in case it was NSFW, and well I had a good chuckle there😄
This technique will not wipe the hard drive. If you want to erase a hard drive you need a much much more powerful magnet than what is used in this video. A pull force of at least 450 pounds is needed to have any effect on a hard drive, and that kind of force is incredibly dangerous.
This is not always effective. Unless you put it back and verify the data is gone do not trust this method.
This totally wouldn't work, the magnetic coercitivty would be dimished but stil readable in a lab
@@MacGuffin1 Very true. If the data wiping of a *_mechanical_* HDD has got that far, and recovering the data is that important and worth the expense, then by the time the alphabet agencies are examining the media they're not using any off-the-shelf tech that remotely looks like standard hard drive software, electronics, read/write heads, etc.
@@exgenica You could simply take a sharp bladed instrument and score the platter multiple times across during spin. This will render the data inaccessible to 99.999% of people.
@@ConnorRooney1 That's pretty much why I talked about expense, hardware used, and the "Alphabet agencies". The scientists, engineers, and lab techs they use aren't part of that 99.999%. (I actually would have used a population exclusion estimate more like 1 in 10's of millions...not just 1 in 100,000)
You guys can use Darkin's boot and nuke, also know as DBAN if you want to fully wipe a hard drive
I cant because my computer blue screens every time It starts up
@@oliver9438 if you already have DBAN on a disk, you can boot the disk through the BIOS rather than the OS
@@TaxEvasionUS u right
@@oliver9438 but too if you are having blue screen issues, why don't you just reinstall Windows? It will be more better than having to wait for DBAN to wipe the hard drive
That's "Darik's" Boot And Nuke.
Why does so many people say it make your drive spoil, but useless, I thought main purpose its to make a drive spoil? I have old hard drive that I want to destroy all data before throwing it away, will this method work? Thanks
NUU THE POOR LITTLE HARD DRIVE *CRIES
ok serioulsy for wiping data and not destroying you could just format the hard drive, but its better to use a wiping software such as DBAN. you can boot on the dban cd and just type in QUICK. it will take a few hrs depending on the size of your hard drive.
Just ask Hillary for help. She has a LOT of experience with "wiping" computer drives...probably has a favorite song with which she sings along while doing it.
Who's Hillary?
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@@PURENT The guy who climbed Mt. Everest.
Hillary should be humming that song while in prison. Hopefully some day. Bill won't mind.
Donald never bothered with any of that. He just kept it all lying around in plain sight in his private residence...
1:22 this part is cursed!
This is helpful because my mother in-law lost the charging cable to her notebook computer and we haven't been able to find a replacement. So, she gave it to me to take to the hazard recycle facility but first I removed the hard drive in case any of her banking information was still on it. I don't see her getting another laptop in the near future that the old hard drive can be installed in so the best thing to do is to just get rid it.
dont waster your time opening it up. just take the screw driver and rip up the outer cable connections. takes like 5 seconds. true somebody could load that platter in another reader but not without the right tools like a dust free environment. very few peeps can do that.
This should be titled...." how to use a screwdriver " useless !!!!
An acetylene torch is pretty effective.
This is just to attempt to destroy the drive. If you don't actually have the magnet make contact with the patter it won't really do much. On top of that there is 0 chance that it will destroy any data on the lower platters. If you can't wipe the drive using DBAN, since the drive has failed, best bet would be to gut out the platters and then take them outside on the street and slide them around with your shoe. This is going to scuff them up pretty good.
Some of these drives have quite a few platters and use both sides of each platter for data (except the ones that use servo positioning tracks on at least one of the platters). You'd also have to disassemble the platter core to remove each platter and mangle them individually. Screwdriver likely won't help in disassembling the platters.
o I get it, but I'd spray the platter down with the special wiping ingredient that comes in a spray can. make sure to spray on the top and bottom of platter. use the whole can to be sure its good and wiped. dry with a lent free cloth.. :P
they take the time to remove cover.. the hearts right there..goto town ..smash and grind that platter.. put holes thru it then paint it !
I just use a sledgehammer, so fast.
Dont think so some how. Just delete everything electronically.
Use a punch and 3lb hammer. Set the punch on the top of the aluminum cover and drive it through with the hammer. It will shatter all the drive platters rendering them useless.
No screwdriver needed.
That only scratches 1st layer. Anyone who has with 6 digit budget for recovery can easily get the remaining data.
If you want to remove all of the data off the hard drive just smash the disk by dropping it or smashing it with a rock so the platters on the inside break
can you still use it
No.
dawg that was 6 years ago@@jayrowe6473
I didn't work.... :( rip my 80$ hard drive....
Its for disposal not reuse
TITLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN “HOW TO DESTROY A HARD DRIVE” misleading title causing people to waste valuable hardware. And you call yourselves “computer recycling.” shame.
I just wanted to erase a Hard Drive WITHOUT destroying it.
If you want to format a hard drive make a bootable linux usb format the hard drives, turn off the pc and plug the usb out
Just dump it in molten lava.
It can only be destroyed by throwing it into the fiery chasm of Mount DOOM!
1 minute 17 seconds out of a 1 minute 39 second video is you removing screws. Short video but largely a waste of time.
lmao.
this is a test
slam once on ground when it is closed and disc will be broken
no data recovery 1000000000000% sure
happened to me ;-;
Should have took tye screwdriver and scratch the living hell out of the disc
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I want to wipe it not destroy it
Wrong vídeo. Use a data recovery software for that. This is to destroy HDD that are already useless but still have sensitive data in them that can be recovered.
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That was completely stupid, that does nothing but enable it useless, and money is flushed down the crapper.
Which is the whole point in case you have an unfuntional disk that has reached the end of its lifecycle. NooB?