How to Open and Destroy an Old Hard Disk to Ensure Data Can't Be Restored?

I have a very old hard disk, I would like to get rid of it, but first you have to destroy it so that the data cannot be restored in any way.
Programmatically it is impossible, but mechanically also difficult.
I unscrewed all the screws from the disk, and still I can't remove the case from it to get to its heart, I think they stuck it with something, what to do?
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It is programmatically possible - until you start up the disk.

Did you unscrew the middle screw? Maybe there is a sticker underneath it.

I have unsealed the discs. A hole in the sticker and ready in the old ones will probably also give a roadstead. I do not know whether the data can be recovered after this, but after starting such a disk, the heads will not rise and mechanical damage is ready. I doubt anyone would want to play this; I mean in data recovery.
I have corrected TONI_2003

> I have unsealed discs.

Are you suggesting the drives are hermetically sealed?

> after starting such a disk, the heads will not raise

But why?

I got it now - but it took a lot of time and energy to devote to it

Hermetically, and yes, inside are the right conditions (probably negative pressure or something in this range). Under normal conditions, the heads would "run" on the plates, and it is known that during normal operation, the head does not touch the plate.

"how to permanently destroy a hard drive"
hammer!;]
seriously, you can run the magnet over the plates and you will not regain anything (preferably neodymium)

Pour epoxy glue inside?

Gregory_bg wrote:

Hermetically, and yes, inside are the right conditions (probably negative pressure or something in this range). Under normal conditions, the heads would "run" on the plates, and it is known that during normal operation, the head does not touch the plate.

You write nonsense oh and it's great

Is this disc bending enough:



?? Because she doesn't even go out to get them out to scratch. Is it enough to bend it?

Gregory_bg
Nonsense! The disc is not hermetically sealed and the head floats on an air cushion. Once opened, the drive will be functional and data can be recovered from it.
I advise you to read about the construction and operation of hard drives before you start thinking about it again.

And someone will answer my question above?

Maybe this airbag confused me somehow after all, Sory for my mistake.
Warped platters will do the trick unless you had super top secret information on that drive

Definitely enough, and above that .

And join the discussion ... I used to have a 20GB drive, Seagate. As he had a few physical examinations at the beginning I didn't really care about him. I created partitions on the healthy surface of the disk, unscrewed all the screws from the case. I connected the computer, the disk to it, when it started, I carefully pulled off the casing. The disk worked without any problems - dust did not settle when the discs were spinning at high speed. I turned on the copying of some files and admired the instant work of the heads ...

Still to the Author ... The plates can still be unscrewed and bent several times and then it breaks. Well, but let's not exaggerate too

thank you - I give you a helping hand;]

But unproductive data destruction.

I twist the plates and hang them on a thin thread under the lamp and they dangle.
Simple and not bent, and no one can read the data because the rest of the disk is disassembled into the first parts.

The whole discussion doesn't make much sense. It is enough to erase the data from the disk and save the entire disk with whatever or to zero its surface (the so-called pseudo low level format). I give a horse with a row to anyone who recovers the data. And all the stories about the recovery based on the magnetic residues, to any number of records backwards, please put between fairy tales. Isn't it better to do as I suggest and sell the disc?

There are no more hammers ?! Drive to the front sidewalk, bash a few times with a hammer and zeroed on amen. This and better bending can be achieved in 10 seconds. And yes - unscrewing, unsealing, magnetizing ... Brainstorming! Simple solutions are the fastest and least time-consuming in this case.

Kisses

kuba989898 wrote:

Simple and not bent, and no one can read the data because the rest of the disk is disassembled into the first parts.

You can always use the rest of the disk from another disk, if someone insisted.
According to me, the most effective is what jankolo says + two cuts with a large grinder (no need to disassemble the disk).
The magnetic residue is certainly not nonsense, but I do not know what erasing in hard drives looks like, but in tape recorders, despite repeated magnetization, erasing does not necessarily erase the previous record to absolute zero, but it is always a few dozen dB of attenuation (this may lower the level of previously recorded below the noise level of the cassette itself).
Usually, I saw such topics in "Na wesół".