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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Your hard drive. My shredder.
On NPR this week, we talked about how to erase a hard drive, a problem that I'd heard Michele Norris was dealing with since I met her in person last October. Turns out I had a recent experience, too; my spare hard drive in my Windows computer crapped out. Luckily, I'd just bought a Drobo and just done my first full backup just two days before.
It turns out hard drives have ridiculously long warranties. It had been so long since I bought this drive, I didn't even remember what year it was, but the Seagate drive was still covered. I got a replacement drive sent to me (after I paid the stupid $20 rush-shipping fee), but then I was reluctant to send the failed hard drive back. I tried formatting it, tried loading it up in DOS. Nothing was coming up, so I couldn't erase what was on it.
As a last resort, I ran a magnet over the hard drive, but I doubt that did anything.
Rebecca's computer, an ancient Dell refurbished tower computer, still sits in our office, waiting for the day when we're comfortable enough with donating it to a LINUX group. At least now I know how to wipe it clean.
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by Omar G. at 11:08 PM
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