so yesterday looking on the shore of a marsh in South Carolina, we found a hard drive under a bridge half buried in the mud
>Seagate 80Gb 7200 rpm drive
>SCSI connection
>s/n 5JVSGKY9
what could be on here, anons? what fucked up shit on here makes you kill innocent drives? guesses?
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It doesn't work anymore.
Needed to destroy evidence of his midget trap fetish from his wife. I bet he couldn’t risk loosing the kids, and regretfully put it out of its misery
Wonder what year this was
No shit
pizza
Is there a way we can extract contents from it after it has died?
Gotta be cp or faggot shit.
>>what could be on here, anons?
something incriminating. send if off to FBI or NSA and tell them you found it near a chinese embassy.
If it got any moisture inside, probably not.
You could probably post a few hundred to have a company recover the platters.
I doubt it. Especially anything like images or juicy stuff. Maybe a schizo doesn't want any data in a landfill...but why isn't it drilled into if it's for privacy reasons?
>we
Are (((we))) forensic data recovery specialists?
It's fucked you retard.
you seem like you don't want them to do anything with it.
There's nothing interesting on it, probably just some vacation photos or something ha ha, please put it back where you found it and delete this thread tho.
i bet the only damage is maybe internal rusting on the axle.
if you can spin that baby up and shoot a laser on it i bet you could get a lot of old stuff, but you should go to a hard drive expert like those chinese people in new york.
you need a very fast machine to archive everything that has ever been on that hard drive.
if you put in the extra work, you just mind find out some things that they never thought you would figure out.
I like to do testdisk on old USB flash drives and find stuff that people have deleted.
OP here... maybe when I'm rich enough
the missing link in pizzagate?
Spotted the pedophile/original owner of the drive.
It was an honest question. I knew that it was most likely fucked, but gotta cover all corners. It isn't every day you find an HDD in a marsh.
Ask the FBI or something to see what's on it, hard drives don't just fall out of computers.
Maybe you'll find more brain cells in the marsh.
K den pedophile.
HDD probably has Daisy's Destruction confirmed by the resistance demonstrated here.
you could honestly have something that critically important on your hands
ikr all the pedos don't want anything to do with data recovery
Either someone was pissed cuz it died or someone has serious info on it. Even if it's wet pulling the data off plate by plate isn't that difficult today with how big they were
you can buy the same drive and swap the platters, granted they're in decent condition, not a job for the feint of heart though
10,000 bitcoin
completely possible
Fuckin 18 months old dude. How is that guy even still alive?
You need to make a Patreon/Liberapay or IndigoKickstartFundme and collect enough to have it professionally recovered.
newfag
How does me knowing what those words mean make me a newfag
I'm 99.99% sure there is CP on it and the owner was some pedophile trying to get rid of evidence. The only I can think of it actually being recoverable, is buying the exact same model drive and swapping out the platters.
kek
#me3
or imply it was from a terrorist organization, that would surely expedite their processes
>Daisy's Destruction
All these years I thought we joked about it as a fake meme like the Grifter
If they bothered to throw it into the river chances are they also did physical damage to it before throwing it.
Assuming the water didn't fuck it up the hammer did
Why does it say Ultra ATA if its a SCSI drive?
>buying the exact same model drive and swapping out the platters.
Isn't that what most data recovery outfits do?
because your surprise implies you just discovered the story
three fucking years...
Unless they were in a hurry and hadn't thought of how to destroy hard-drives before.
also yes but in cleaner environments and better tools than op is likely to have
What would happen if OP went and repaired the HDD by professionnals and they find CP on it? Would they arrest him for child pornography?
the pics of proof that he found it are in his phone so... no
someone is trying hard to deter you from recovering or even attempt to recover what's on this drive OP
I mean even if it isn't 100% destroyed a hammer or knife can do enough damage to it that a random schmuck on Jow Forums can't fix.
That would require data recovery scientist that would charge you an arm and a leg assuming it's even possible
Seriously I would hand that over to the FBI that hard drive is there for a reason.
Unless a scared FBI employee was the one who threw it in the river in a hurry.
soros threw it in the river and it contains all the kiddy diddling videos he films in the basement of a pizza joint while everyone in the elite jerks off and plays with other kids
i wouldn't dare
because i made a mistake making this post
there were a few bent pins on the connector, but the outer case doesn't show signs of a struggle. the main issue is the rusting since it was in salt water--that would make a very difficult recovery even more difficult.
i also wonder about the privacy concerns about who would have rights to view the data. i mean, the dump probably wasn't recent given the capacity. it's an oem drive, probably the main drive for the desktop that it was sold in, so it would contain (fragments of) system info as well as personal storage. logs would be what i'm most interested in besides anything in their home directory.
>salt water
it's gone
>Seagate 80Gb
that shit is old as fuck. They haven't made drives like that since 2004.
Whoever threw it away probably isnt even alive anymore. I'm 100% certain it contained CP. No normal person tosses their HDD in water.
Doesn't matter now.
>there were a few bent pins on the connector, but the outer case doesn't show signs of a struggle. the main issue is the rusting since it was in salt water--that would make a very difficult recovery even more difficult.
Keyword there is "difficult". It's not impossible to recover the drive, but doing so would be very expensive.
Considering where you found it, you probably don't want to be even remotely associated with the data that might be on the drive. I'd suggest you hand it over to your local police or FBI, they may have an interest in it.
>even still alive
>still
No youre just a twat
Big if true
from a mac.
really? what models/years used this then? if true interesting desu
Seconding.
Pretty much no hope. And if you try to spin it up there's guaranteed to be more damage.
Your sole hope is taking it to some professionals, OP. Doubt they can perform miracles though.
Where did you find it? What time?
credit card numbers, personal documents, and usernames with passwords
do you not destroy your hard drive when you no longer need it??
>Is there a way we can extract contents from it after it has died?
You can pay a few big bucks and have a forensic lab disassemble it and read the platters, but at home? No.
Wando River, Charleston, SC on the afternoon of yesterday, July 11
Keep looking for the rest of the computer.
Dude I threw a hard drive with 100 BTC on it in that river yesterday
Drive Savers Data Recovery in california can help you out with that shit
I'd chuck my hard drive in a lake too if it was a Seagate.
This might be something major. Sounds like an interesting investment to have forensics applied.
PowerPC macs from the late 90's were SCSI but 80 gigs is a bit large. I remember putting a 4 gig drive in one and it was HUGE. Seagate was standard for Apple back then and you had to patch the Finder to add the drive model number to the white list if you wanted to upgrade. Ether that drive is from a 90's mac or a 90's to early 2000's server.
>few hundred
Lol, no.. try thousand.
I'm pretty sure it's CP. What part of South Carolina you found it?
Alright OP, I'm feeling generous today. I'll help you attempt to recover it. I haven't read much of the thread but what's the connection, a SCSI? Get a computer running Linux (vanilla Ubuntu live USB will do) and an adapter to hook that sort of drive to the Linux machine. Then look on ebay for that exact drive model and capacity and buy a working one. This will all run you $30-50 tops as opposed to hundreds or thousands for a pro service. Now ideally you'd want to do a platter transplant in a clean room, but a very thoroughly vacuumed room and a spotless desk will do. Wear rubber gloves. You can look at YouTube tutorials that'll tell you how to transplant the platters. Start by opening the broken disk. If there's any sign of water inside, it's totally fucked and you should give up. Otherwise you can swap the platters to the donor drive, and if you're really lucky it'll work long enough for you to copy a few files.
I've only ever successfully done a drive transplant at home with a drive making a clicking noise that wasn't damaged otherwise, but never with a 15 year old HDD found in a river. Good luck OP.
You have to give it back, Jamal.
>2004
>Whoever threw it away probably isnt even alive anymore.
what the fuck man, that's 2004, not 1904
date code on the disk is 06142, which is 2006, 14th week, 2nd day of week, aka April 4, 2006
You coul recover data from an hdd throw in the lava, it just a matter of money.
You can always dry it up and try reading it hoping for the best. If you really want to get data off, you'll need forensic tools big recovery guys have. It's expensive as fuck though, expect to use upwards of a grand if not more
What could be on here, anons? What fucked up shit on here makes you kill innocent drives? Guesses?
>what could be on here
Data
nice head crash, that thing died before it had holes drilled into it
>salt water
>marsh
yeah... you are stupid
>OP goes through all this trouble to recover the data
>it’s just zeroes
user I think live right by there AND I have a friend who does data recovery who owes me a favor. See where I am going with this? Give me an email or some way to contact you.
There is literally nothing wrong with being a pedophile.
You cant just swap the platters to a new drive anymore.
Most drives use a symetric block cipher to encrypt (usually an AES mode of opperation) the data before storage.
You likely need to swap the flash storage IC(s) (usually 8 pin).
Good luck.
Also foremost is a good tool.
Also, if you do the swap yourself, use your bathroom. Create as much steam as possible.
[email protected] worth a shot, because Lord knows I won't try this myself haha
sorry [email protected]
not [email protected]?
user, you fucked up
the owner of the drive will now find you and retrieve his HD
Delete this
>In October 2015, a fire severely damaged the evidence room containing Scully's computer logs and videos, destroying key evidence.
Should have posted a torrent somewhere
is op still here, this is probably the best thread on Jow Forums right now. If op didnt throw his own drive in the water like a faggot just for bait hooks. We could have important forensic evidence or something potentially big that could damage someone or something. I recommend you do something with that drive that will fix it. Try looking up guides to removing the platters and replacing them or some shit. Do something.
I was with OP when they found it. It's real.
The chances of recovery are astronomically low. Shit has been sitting in the water since 2006. Even if they somehow got the platter working, we've no idea if the data is encrypted
Why do you guys want to ruin someone's life so much anyway? They clearly disposed of it, so let them be.
Return it to the water. It was there for a reason.
Some secrets should never see the light of day. Also we cannot guarantee your physical safety, or that of your family...
>what could be on here, anons
Worms most likely
It is possible at home. You have to buy the same drive, but working one. Then switch the platters over. Of course you have to do this in a small clean room like box.
>lets let a murderer get away with a crime it''ll be fine
nah, lets actually redeem ourselves. The fuck would you want a murderer thinking you can just take someones life then run away? We need op to do something clearly somethings on it if its been in the water since 2006.
but the problem is wheres op. Op should be in this thread giving us updates desu.
What b-tier storytelling/roleplaying bullshit is this thread? Somebody lost a fucking harddrive, big whoop. inb4 pedophile/fbi/dumper of hdd
It's an OEM drive, this makes it very suspicious because there is no reason for it to be their without the desktop it belongs to. Whoever had it went to the effort to rip it out and throw it in there. Im interested to see where this goes.
umm, you do know that salt marshes are an actual thing, don't you?
How can you *lose* an internal harddrive?
did you recover the unhampered evidence of hillary's emails, the lockness monster footage, bigfoot's address and UFO documents yet?
yea I hate when I'm out taking a stroll and my desktop's 3.5inch internal HDD flies out of my fucking tower into a lake