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How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works to c/hardwaregore@lemmy.world
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So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board. And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time. One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!! going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!

We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

got rather board

I wood say that's almost as bad as planking.

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

aka the unreasonably stupid way.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'd have to be an American to think that the next thing to happen to those drives involved anything other than an axe.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

Don't fuck up an axe with a hard drive. Use a hammer, or preferably just a screwdriver (there are neat parts inside).

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Probably a lot of the data on those platters is still readable. Magnets are the best way to erase a hard drive.

I understand you didn’t have any data on them, but just to be clear.