EyesExplode (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Fantastic. Thermite is the only way that there is no way to recover anything. It basically amounts to melting the metal in the drive itself.That said, get a big, solid box of tungsten, set your computer in that, and pack thermite around it. Leave an exhaust vent going outside. You could set that off, in your house, and it would vent fumes outside, and the tungsten case would keep the thermite from buring down your house.Tungsten is hella expensive though.

mistahtom (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Lern too spell NEIGHBORHOOD and WHILE dummy

EatOoze (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Even if the hard drive would have survived and the disks recoverable, the temperature is way past the Curie point, so even if the disk was intact (which it wasn't), the disk would be demagnetized.

Assi2004 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

it not a low-lvl format?its no high-lvl formatting toothats a very different beast!go check wikipedia or any other side if u dont believe meand now u tell me, how to recover data from that!

MD2389 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

You can actually still recover data from that. DOD spec I believe is to write data to a given sector(s) atleast 5 - 7 times before its "gone". A simple low-level format (which is what you described) is not sufficient.

Assi2004 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

just rewrite whit zeros...there are programs for that, eg. from western digital

cwestside (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

formatting is recoverable. government spec is to destroy the platters. ie grind them in to sand

fumatu (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

it's called formating, it won't hurt nobody ;)

cwestside (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

go ahead try and microwave a plater from a HDD nothing will happen same thing happens when you put a spoon in the microwave if there is no ARC nothing happens try crinkling up some tin foil and throw it in and you will see what happens when theres an ARC

antymperio (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

thwe best way to erase any data is microwave, destroy everi thing on cd's and HDD