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July 10, 2007
Tea, Sugar and Data Recovery
... "We thought it was glue on the disk. We were having no luck but the last technique we tried was to remove the platters from the hard drive. Right underneath the bottom platter there was the tea and sugar mix. We cleaned the platter and then reassembled the hard drive and recovered the data." - Testing the limits of hard disk recovery (BBC News)Who knew that data recovery folks could clean a hard drive of tea and sugar and rescue the data? This information comes a month late for me, since I ripped the hard drive out of my tea and sugar-infused Titanium laptop. Once I got it out I proceeded to whack the drive a few hundred times with a hammer. I'll bet that if I handed that drive over to the experts they'd still be able to get the data off, but that isn't an investment I want/need to make. Oh well.
(Thanks for the info, "George.")
Cindy
Comments
What? No thermite? No blowtorches? No pictures of the destruction?
I'm sure there are a lot of disappointed geeks out there :)
Brain matter deposited by: Greg on July 11, 2007 8:26 AM
Wasn't there also an unfortunate soda incident not too long ago?
Are you seeing a pattern?
Brain matter deposited by: Al on July 11, 2007 8:57 AM
Al - nope. just one incident - iced tea w/sugar. The next laptop up and died an early death all on its own - this past October.
Greg - LOL!
Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on July 11, 2007 9:02 AM