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Offline Sooz

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I think it's really dead now
« on: January 05, 2014, 04:47:31 PM »
Since I couldn't erase my old HD, I had to take other steps as I mentioned in my other post about the Apple Recycle Program.  

I drilled the heck out of my HD.  

Do you think it's "good to go" to recycling now?? Do I need to drill more holes in it, or in a different area? Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2014, 05:30:14 PM »
Looks to me that that drive will be DOA at the recycle site. toothgrin.gif
2 or 3 probably would have done it...6 is a sure thing. notworthy.gif

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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2014, 06:19:25 PM »
Nice grouping! clap.gif Was that from the competition distance? I think that's 0.005mm. wink.gif
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2014, 07:34:18 PM »
I take it you didn't consider putting the drive in an external enclosure to see if it actually still worked...? Granted, a 250 GB drive is small by today's standards, so it might not have been all that useful. I'm sure you had fun drilling holes in it! wink.gif
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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2014, 09:59:32 PM »
We like to do this and then again sometimes we take them apart and harvest the platters for wind chime components and the magnets in the heads to use to hang things onto the refrigerator or metal shelves!
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2014, 01:28:35 AM »
Paddy, I'm pretty sure it was dead dead dead.  Bob, glad to know 6 is a sure thing! Gunug, it seemed to be impervious to opening.

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Was that from the competition distance?
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2014, 12:25:38 PM »
Egads, what a target!
 Whoops, I thought it was bullet holes till I read a bit.
One of my son in laws tossed his old one into the ocean off the Martha's Vineyard ferry, or his boat, I cant remember which.
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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2014, 03:04:41 PM »
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[He} tossed his old one into the ocean off the Martha's Vineyard ferry, or his boat
I hope he had big buckets of concrete on that thing's feet! eek2.gif If it ever comes back to the surface, the authorities may be able to get his identity and he could be in deep 'water' himself! police.gif judge.gif
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2014, 03:54:07 PM »
Or a fish might eat it. It was his stock market stuff on that one, so thats why he tossed it.
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