Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

[Dale]

Iain Buchanan wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>
>>Iain Buchanan wrote:
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>>I have heard the same thing.  I have watched some of them on TV get data
>>off some unbelievable drives.  Some had bent platters, serious
>>scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc,   After all that,
>>they still got enough of what they wanted.  They put a chemical on one
>>and you could see the data with your eyes.  It looked like a round bar
>>code sort of.
>>
>>
>
>hmm, sounds suspicious... It could have been some sort of serial number,
>but if you could see it with your eye, it definitely wasn't 0's and 1's
>of data.
>
>Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter.
>
>


Well, the one you could see was a old floppy.  I think it was a 5 1/4
floppy.  You had to look close but after they put the chems on it, you
could see it when they zoomed in on it pretty good.

I would assume they could do the same for a hard drive and just use
something to magnify it, like maybe a microscope or something.

Dale
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