Iain Buchanan wrote: >On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>Iain Buchanan wrote: >> >> >> >>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 :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
