Top 10 data destruction disasters

tripwire45 · Aug 24, 2005

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It's amazing some of the ways people can lose data. Our favourite excuses of late involve everything from toilets to tarmac and mountaineering to meterology.

1. Data Defrost
One man brought in a hard drive in a wet plastic bag. He said he had read on the Internet that if you place a broken drive in the freezer it would fix it. So he tried that method and asked the recovery engineers not to laugh.

2. Reckless Recycling
One man tidied up his computer folders and inadvertently deleted the ones he meant to keep. He then cleaned up his system, emptied the recycle bin and defragged the hard drive before realising his error. He now triple-checks files before deleting them for good.
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Missy · Aug 24, 2005

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Lol Even I'm not that daft, I love the Freezer one
Missy

JonnyMX · Aug 25, 2005

Sob...

OK, I admit it, they were all me!

Please don't tell my boss.

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