Video: How to bring lost data back to life

Could silicon.com beat the boffins?

Published: 15 June 2007 13:31 GMT by Gemma Simpson

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From mouldy bananas to smelly socks to falling out of a helicopter, there are many different ways to wreck a computer hard drive.

Data recovery company Ontrack challenged silicon.com to 'do our worst' to two innocent drives and send them off to be resurrected in the company labs.

In this video see how two silicon.com team members - editor-at-large Will Sturgeon and reporter Gemma Simpson - fared in the data destruction challenge and if that all-important data could be raised from the dead.





	
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Anonymous Mon 18 June, 2007 1:15pm

	
The data was able to be recovered becasue the...

			
RObert Shuttleworth Wed 20 June, 2007 1:55pm

	
The abused drives did not appear to be from...

		
			
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