Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/07

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Subject: [Leica] Cleaning a Hard Drive
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Sep 7 12:55:20 2006

I'm going to guess that your secrets are safe, Jim. :-)


On 9/7/06 2:59 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:

> Good idea for a new sport (replacing tree chopping :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Op 7-sep-06, om 18:53 heeft Jim Nichols het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Several days ago there was a thread about cleaning a hard drive
>> before releasing it to salvage.  I decided to "clean" a failed
>> Western Digital Caviar drive because Dell is conducting a one-time
>> pick-up of all brands of computer hardware in Nashville on
>> Saturday.  I tried the 8-pound hammer approach and was amazed at
>> the toughness of the metal top.  Because I did not have a Torx
>> driver small enough to open the case, I hammered it until it split,
>> then put in a vise and used some other tools to distort the disk
>> itself.  See the results below.
>> 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hard+Drive.jpg.html
>> 
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