lostinlodos wrote:
One other note.
I've said this before; drilling through your platters does nothing for protection of your data.
You've gotten this far; so take some swipes across those platters with your free high grade magnet from the drive. Centre out. Much as you would cleaning a cd or DVD. This method in this angle pulls the stored "bits" out of alignment so even if you don't completely erase all the data any remnants would require far more in the way of servo programming to create new offset tracking than ANY data thief is going to go through.
I can (and have many a time) recovery a good 90% of the data off a drilled or punched drive
But have never gotten anything off one that used the magnet tricks, which is why I push it so hard.
I assume you own or have access to the high dollar equipment to do data recovery off bent or damaged platters.