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220-1202 · Question #135
A user wants to dispose of a failed hard drive in a way that ensures the data is unrecoverable. Which of the following is the best at-home method?
The correct answer is E. Drilling. Drilling physically destroys the hard drive platters, making data recovery impossible, and is an effective at-home method for ensuring data is unrecoverable.
Submitted by mike_84· Mar 30, 2026Security
Question
A user wants to dispose of a failed hard drive in a way that ensures the data is unrecoverable. Which of the following is the best at-home method?
Options
- AStandard formatting
- BLow-level formatting
- CShredding
- DDegaussing
- EDrilling
How the community answered
(31 responses)- A3% (1)
- B6% (2)
- C3% (1)
- D13% (4)
- E74% (23)
Explanation
Drilling physically destroys the hard drive platters, making data recovery impossible, and is an effective at-home method for ensuring data is unrecoverable.
Topics
#Data destruction#Hard drive disposal#Data sanitization
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