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AFAIK, if you physically destroy the contents of a drive with a strong magnetic field, you also destroy the servo tracks, rendering the drive useless. Modern ha
by teraflop 10y ago
AFAIK, if you physically destroy the contents of a drive with a strong magnetic field, you also destroy the servo tracks, rendering the drive useless. Modern hard drives can't "low-level format" themselves; they're not mechanically precise enough.