erasing faulty hard drive

[Tom]

On 25/11/2011 4:32 PM, kreed wrote:

On Nov 22, 6:33 pm, kreed<kenreed1...@gmail.com> wrote:
We have a WD 2TB green hard drive that has failed, it will not even be
recognised when connected to the pc. It will have to go back under
warranty, but is there any way of wiping the data from it first ? IE
degaussing wand, large magnet etc ?




Seems as though it is working again, but only when laid upside down,
and only when plugged directly to the SATA connector on a PC
motherboard. Will not work in a USB case, but identical ones
(WD20EARS) will. Strange

Am erasing data now while it keeps working before returning it.
Fortunately was nowhere near full.

Check out sdelete utility (part of SysInternals suite), you probably want run it once you delete your files.

Tom

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2011-11-22, kreed <kenreed1999@gmail.com> wrote:

We have a WD 2TB green hard drive that has failed, it will not even be
recognised when connected to the pc. It will have to go back under
warranty, but is there any way of wiping the data from it first ? IE
degaussing wand, large magnet etc ?

Nothing that won't void the warranty.
is secrecy worth the price of the drive?

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[Ian Field]

"Jasen Betts" <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote in message
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On 2011-11-22, kreed <kenreed1999@gmail.com> wrote:
We have a WD 2TB green hard drive that has failed, it will not even be
recognised when connected to the pc. It will have to go back under
warranty, but is there any way of wiping the data from it first ? IE
degaussing wand, large magnet etc ?

Nothing that won't void the warranty.
is secrecy worth the price of the drive?

The OP has posted elsewhere that the drive seems to work laid upside down -
with any luck, long enough to scrub the disk with a data wipe.

 

[kreed]

On Nov 30, 1:50 am, "Ian Field" <gangprobing.al...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

"Jasen Betts" <ja...@xnet.co.nz> wrote in message

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On 2011-11-22, kreed <kenreed1...@gmail.com> wrote:
We have a WD 2TB green hard drive that has failed, it will not even be
recognised when connected to the pc.  It will have to go back under
warranty, but is there any way of wiping the data from it first ?  IE
degaussing wand, large magnet etc ?

Nothing that won't void the warranty.
is secrecy worth the price of the drive?

The OP has posted elsewhere that the drive seems to work laid upside down -
with any luck, long enough to scrub the disk with a data wipe.

Yes, and it just keeps working and working. strangely, if you turn it
over it will just "stop", but wont crash the computer. (as though you
have pushed the "pause" button on that drive window), but turning
back, it will just work again. Really weird

 

[terryc]

kreed wrote:

Yes, and it just keeps working and working. strangely, if you turn it
over it will just "stop", but wont crash the computer. (as though you
have pushed the "pause" button on that drive window), but turning
back, it will just work again. Really weird

I have one that "recovered" if run on its side. Weird enough for me to
swap it out asap. Still floating around in one of the fiddle boxes on
its side.