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

[Michael Trausch]

By "entirely unformatted" I presume the disk is full of zeroes? If that is
the case, the shipper most likely made a mistake...

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On Jan 27, 2012 3:01 PM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> 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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