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- benthekuno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seems like a long winded advertisement for Ontrack to me. I'd summarize the entire article as "Got a drive that crashed pretty bad? Ontrack has a great hard drive recovery service. For a fee you can have them take a look at your drive and decide whether or not you want them to try recovering it. Here's their pricing scheme, contact information, and some additional plugs for how we sent in a drive and what sort of problems they can typically solve."
I'd digg the article if they maybe had a comparison (or even a mention!) with other data recovery methods or vendors. As it is, I would almost expect it to be one of those advertisements that looks like a regular article in the middle of a magazine. - uniqueusername, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Recover this:
http://www.fatofthelan.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=datawipe - Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But can they recover a disk that has been exposed to an irreversible thermite reaction?
- Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He should have slathered on some BBQ sauce to give them an extra level of difficulty.
- dmoney06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@wardrive
makes sense if you read th article - Rekkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Unfortunately, we asked Dan (PC Magazine features editor) to pack up the drives and mail them out. He tossed them into an envelope, slapped on an address, and dropped them into the office UPS bin. No padding. No Styrofoam peanuts. Nothing."
They actually wanted the data off these drives, but the guy mailed them like that? Oh man, this is not the PC Magazine I remember from the early 90s. No wonder I don't buy it anymore. - tawker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, when I have a drive I want to kill I run DBAN a couple times and call it a secure wipe. Never had a problem after I've DBAN'd a drive (and I'd like to see them try to recover from it)
- davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1* I've never owned a WD that lasted long enough to purposely destroy it. The above is ***** up English!
- wardrive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did... i jus t thought it was odd. I took a blow torch to my hardrive just now to send it in and see if they can recover data from a molten harddrive.
- totalnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmmmm, barbecued hard drive. ...drool....
- LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So this guy literally has money to burn....
- nneonneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1o_O uniqueusername: that would be interesting, but considering they managed to salvage an HDD ripped to shreds with pliers, I bet they could get our data back.
BTW: the only safe bet? 35 pass erasure with most data deletion tools = no more data left.
After that, take the HDD out, douse it in gasoline, put it on fire, short circuit it then make it into a frisbee.
Great fun for everyone. - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was just thinking about that, Dhalgren. Probably not, because we all know once the irreversible thermite reaction begins, it cannot be stopped because it's irreversible... and cannot be stopped.
- wardrive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So wait... a bbq'd hardrive was easily recovered... but a f'd up mailing ruined the other two... Spookie Bootchies.
- davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Ever thrown a Western Digital hard drive into a campfire?" Ive never owned a WD last long enough to purposely destroy it.
- jsmiley17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sure if this person were advertising for Ontrack that they would have done it on the million dollar homepage, not on Digg. Someone sounds a lil cranky today!
- DiggThisOrThat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic." ?? -- Why?
- rnick1976, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Exactly this post should digg it self a hole! For any one that dugg this, then when your hard drive goes bad I will take it to my clean room (oh yeah it the same room my dog sleeps in during the day) and just replace parts on it till it works. And then send you a bill for $300."
Thanks, Captain Grammar. - dstart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone tried microwaving a hard drive?
- Mr.Glass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol
"Engineers couldn't overcome the poor packing skills of PC Magazine features editor Dan Evans." - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic.
It's sad to think a disk can be ruined more by a mechanical failure than being thrown on a camp fire! - hordak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I disagree. This was an amazing story!
- SystemsGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So the point is that OnTrack really can get data back from seriously fried (literally in this case!) drives. I've used 'em since '96 or so, and it's worth a digg for those who have data worth retrieving - eg worth the money they want.
Got a hard drive with something useless that toast? Put it in your freezer or send it to DiggThisOrThat to fix. Got one that's actually important, OnTrack is the way to go.
What I really would have liked to see was an article where PCMag cooked 5 drives, then pounded them a bit, then sent them off to the top 5 recovery houses and compared the results... - ToadX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not so amazing. The inside of the drive wasn't that damaged.
- nneonneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But can they recover a disk that has been exposed to an irreversible thermite reaction?
Yay! Thermite!!! - chrisu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@uniqueusername - A fujitsu drive would do that level of damage to itself when its just outside of its warrenty period, no need to expensive power tools ;-)
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hahaha! So true, Davidleeroth.
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@uniqueusername - I bet they could get some of the data back on that one.
- flowaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice advert, but the question is:
WILL MY BOSS PAY FOR IT????
No. He's going to tell be I should have backed the bastard up! - tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0""You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic." ?? -- Why?" All substances have a temperature called the Curie point, any higher than that and they become demagnetized. And I dunno about shock, but I believe hitting it hard enough can actually disalign some of the poles.
That was pretty cool, even if it was just an ad for Ontrack... - sigfukt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@hitchhiker90:
Well, the article did say he was on a camping trip with his fiancee.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is advertising for Ontrack, anyone knows HDD recovery - if you have the time and money - is generally very efficient. Otherwise I'd be content to just take a sledge to any HDD I've ever owned or worked with, regardless of how sensitive the data is.
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was I the only person to initially read "Ontrack" as "Outback" in reference to being barbecued?
Was quite confused for a moment. :-p - Sazime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ontrack. Geez. www.drivesavers.com They've been doing things like this for YEARS.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0""You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic." ?? -- Why?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_point - Jmog123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Read this in PC Mag a few weeks ago.
No Digg - DiggThisOrThat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0""You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic." ?? -- Why?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_point
Its a wood fire! Not a torch!
wiki wiki - thebeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for polluting a beautifully camp site with toxic chemicals! *****.
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- DiggThisOrThat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yes. Yes I am cranky, but it was just so lame.
- KriLL3.2™, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0PCMag is sinking lower and lower imo...
- DiggThisOrThat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Exactly this post should digg it self a hole! For any one that dugg this, then when your hard drive goes bad I will take it to my clean room (oh yeah it the same room my dog sleeps in during the day) and just replace parts on it till it works. And then send you a bill for $300.
- squiggly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I was expecting to see the words, "Retrieving lost data: Priceless"
- Hitchhiker90, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I think I'll ask the one question on everyone's mind.
If this guy went camping and he woke up and his butt hole hurt, would he tell anyone? - GoChris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0wow 25 diggs and on front page already.
- DiggThisOrThat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This is a lame advertisment for Ontrack. What is the freaking point of this story. Hard drive recovery isn't exactly interesting at all. Its not too difficult either. Either the data is there on the discs or not. Thats how computers work. You either have you bits fliped the right way or you ain't got nothing at all. So oooo... he burned a hard drive. It would have been just as exciting if he removed the controller from the back of the drive and sent it in. THIS IS REALLY BORING!
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