[ale] OT could a metal detector in shipping process do this?

[Calvin Harrigan]

Possible, but I think it's more likely the drive got damaged in shipping.

On 1/27/2012 3:01 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
> I have 4 hard drives sent to me. One of the 4 is entirely unformatted
> while the other three are formatted  (and full of data).
> Is there any way that a metal detector or some-such DHS TSA device could
> entirely clear 1 of 4 discs??
>
> The sender said there was data on all the disks when they were packaged up.
>
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