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

[Wolf Halton]

I am not going down to bit-level analysis, but plug them in and both the
gnome disk utility and windows' similar app tell me that the disks are
unformatted.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> 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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