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What Are The Chances Of Finding A Hard Drive Thrown Away 7 years Ago?
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I'd give it more chance of having recoverable data than being found in the first place.es5595 said:I read the story earlier and it made me smile! I can’t help think he’s got a very low chance of finding it, and it then being in a usable state!
Hard drives can be surprisingly robust, so be very careful when throwing out any old hard drives that might contain sensitive data:
https://www.ontrack.com/en-gb/blog/how-kroll-ontrack-recovered-data-from-the-columbia-space-shuttle-disaster0 -
ratechaser said:Got some tulip bulbs for sale if anyone's interested. Shall we start the bidding at... let me think...
I threw my tulip bulbs into the garbage
I wonder if I can find them again.
Retired 1st July 2021.
This is not investment advice.
Your money may go "down and up and down and up and down and up and down ... down and up and down and up and down and up and down ... I got all tricked up and came up to this thing, lookin' so fire hot, a twenty out of ten..."0 -
I just read this too, along with the bloke who has two attempts left before his hard drive wipes it's self :0 eek. You really dont want fat finger syndrome there :00
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