On a community livejournal titled "laptop hosing," someone was asking for a large magnet because he had, " a dead drive in a laptop, that I need to turn in tomorrow."
What does this mean?
2007-05-01 06:28:12 · 4 answers · asked by swpchicken 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Why would someone want to do this? Because they are hiding something from their boss?
2007-05-01 09:56:56 · update #1
Running a large magnet over a hard drive, such as the ones used to erase video and cassette tapes, will "hose" or destroy all the information on a computer hard drive. It will usually also destroy the read/write head making the drive useless. It is recommended that you destroy a hard drive like that before throwing it away. Then no one can find the drive and steal your information off it.
It work in the IT department of a manufacturer company. We have our own way of "hosing" hard drives. We line them up in a 50 ton press used for stamping cart bodies, and cyclke the press once. There is nothing recognizable left of the drives.
2007-05-01 06:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A magnet can erase a hard drive and the word hosing means cheating of some kind.
2007-05-01 13:36:20 · answer #2 · answered by catmoosebear 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you run a magnet over a hard drive, you corrupt all of the material on it as well as erase most of it in the process. It's not a safe procedure and shouldn't be used by any person that hasn't done it before. Effective, but devastating if done wrong!
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2007-05-01 13:33:20 · answer #3 · answered by hoes40 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, I think that the user wants to take all the personal information off the hard drive. Athough, little does he know that a magnet wont work well enough, unless it's a very powerful one.
2007-05-01 13:33:43 · answer #4 · answered by JMKyler3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋