Becareful when selling a "Hard Drive"

[Deadly Shadow]

Thats just sick. Thanks for the heads up. I would now rather put my HDD in an external case and use rather then selling.

[eViLrAcEr]

by the way who the heck sells a hard drive :P It's the only thing that can be re-used all the time! enclosures ftw! unless you need money ofcourse

[sunny945]

thankyou jshak bhai
aap ne buhut kaam ki baat bataye hay

[mediumBen]

This news is shocking! Thanks for the heads-up Jshak bhai. I will never ever sell my HDDs to anyone.

[Jshak]

by the way who the heck sells a hard drive :P It's the only thing that can be re-used all the time! enclosures ftw! unless you need money ofcourse

For you is a sale, other's re use it

I am sure, I want to buy out your hard drive, " ITNA BOLTA HAI " :d . The moment I have your data, I really want you change your to ......

Lets do it

[Greed]

wth :/ that's absolutely sick.
many thanks for the caution junaid bhai..

[DEXT3R]

My Professor told me once, there is some device available in the market( dont know wts its name) that is used to format a hard disk completely like its new one just came from the company...that should be used before selling hard disk to anyone...

[UmarIrshad]

Well, you guys can actually catch those guys with their very own trick, offer HDDs for sale on the websites reported, and find a suspicious person, and get in contact with him/her. Not as easy as it sounds, but can be tried.

Anyways, Junaid bhai thanks for the heads up.

[theDarkDisciple]

Shocking, to say the least. Appreciate the heads up Jshak.

However there are a few measures that can be taken to ensure this doesnt happen:
1. Low-level format, makes previously written data on the HDD irrecoverable.
2. Norton and Acronis have tools which destroy the data on a drive, there's also a military-grade file shredder built-in.
3. If its a small drive, write something else like movies or something on the file which would over-write and thus render the previously-written data useless.

[Pleasant]

Thanks for the HEADSUP JSHAK

Same Goes for MOBILE SD CARDS it can also be Restored
same Goes for USB sticks
and SAME GOES for MOBILE PHONE MEMORY

The Images Can be Restored this happend with me when my card got Corupt so i searched a software it restored my files as well and the also the files that the PREVIOUS mobile OWNER HAS it i didnt miss use it i just delete that and restored mine only

So BeAware when buying / selling MEMORY STICKS/ SD MEMORY CARDS / CELL PHONES