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RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - Skunk1966 - 05-13-2021
(05-13-2021, 08:49 AM)mr4rg Wrote:you can have (almost!) all data ever written on a HDD/SSD recovered by professional data recovery services. It's done in a clean room and isn't cheap(05-13-2021, 07:18 AM)Skunk1966 Wrote: but not if you know what you're doing and using professional softwareWhat is 'the way' then?
I've been under impression that overwriting data with other data makes recovery impossible.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - WTFX - 06-26-2021
DBAN or physically destroy drives depending on how sensitive the data is.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - NikKlaus - 06-28-2021
(05-13-2021, 10:01 AM)Skunk1966 Wrote:(05-13-2021, 08:49 AM)mr4rg Wrote:you can have (almost!) all data ever written on a HDD/SSD recovered by professional data recovery services. It's done in a clean room and isn't cheap(05-13-2021, 07:18 AM)Skunk1966 Wrote: but not if you know what you're doing and using professional softwareWhat is 'the way' then?
I've been under impression that overwriting data with other data makes recovery impossible.
like 9 years ago,i asked a for recovering some data on my old hdd and in 2TB data they asked me like €5K,from that time one started making backups properly.
Back into the topic unless you destroy physically the hdd/ssd if you have data that is sensibile they will always recover it imho.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - Zary - 08-10-2021
I use bitlocker to encrypt the disk, delete the key and empty the data before selling to avoid data loss
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - WTFX - 09-12-2021
(08-10-2021, 06:07 AM)Zary Wrote: I use bitlocker to encrypt the disk, delete the key and empty the data before selling to avoid data lossYou mean create data loss.
Very much so too. Sounds reasonably effective. Might format it a few times afterwards for good measures.. Just in case you think "they" may have backdoors in the encryption. I thought I read recently also that Bitlocker is somewhat backdoored/flawed.. might have been only in default configuration though.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - Uthar - 09-22-2021
Haven't thrown away a SSD yet but for HDDs I do a simple format and after use a screwdriver to destroy some connectors.
Sure some professionals could still recover the data with some effort but nobody is going to take the time to do that.
I have never sold a used disk though.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - Feir'Dal - 09-23-2021
(09-22-2021, 08:20 PM)Uthar Wrote: Haven't thrown away a SSD yet but for HDDs I do a simple format and after use a screwdriver to destroy some connectors.That's a good idea.
Sure some professionals could still recover the data with some effort but nobody is going to take the time to do that.
I have never sold a used disk though.
I was doing a long secure format the other day to dump my HDD.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - sexy_lexy - 05-08-2022
(05-13-2021, 10:01 AM)Skunk1966 Wrote:this is amazing. I always thought after a format your data was disintegrated into atoms.(05-13-2021, 08:49 AM)mr4rg Wrote:you can have (almost!) all data ever written on a HDD/SSD recovered by professional data recovery services. It's done in a clean room and isn't cheap(05-13-2021, 07:18 AM)Skunk1966 Wrote: but not if you know what you're doing and using professional softwareWhat is 'the way' then?
I've been under impression that overwriting data with other data makes recovery impossible.
how expensive are we talking for this kind of operation?
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - Ntuewu - 07-16-2022
If you're one of the people who uses some form of RAID wouldn't that mean that the recovery is impossible without enough drives? Obviously not RAID 1, but something like n-1 of a RAID 0 or n-2 of a RAID 5. Even if you could recover the data, it would be incomplete.
RE: Why not to sell you HDD or SSD with your computer - gugtenterf - 03-06-2023
that's somethin I'd never succeed: recovering just accidentally deleted files in Windows even using so called pro recovery tools in pen drives.