In the street I found a box with twenty old hdd. What should I do?

In the street I found a box with twenty old hdd. What should I do?

donate them to the homeless

>1gb hdds
they are worthless

there's perfectly good magnets in there, fool

>1gb
That clearly says 10005.0 megabytes
That's a 10 gig you tard

you know exactly what to do with them

You found a cp cache, be careful

is manufactured in 99 so yes, is 10gb

Install steam on it

lol, those Maxtror hard dick's. Remember those?

Give it back Jamal.

Oh, Maxtors. They're probably all fucked. Use the magnets and motors and create a free energy device, or use the platters and make a tesla turbine.

I feel young. But I was born in a third world country so I have the right to ask:

What?

>Use magnets to create model of free energy gizmo
>Make video of it and put on YouTube
>Pay for your electricity bill and more with the ad money

Use a recovery program to see what can you find on them,

yeah i'm getting hard-ons right now.

what you recomended?

Caviar says 853MB, also
>16 heads
Damn.

JAMAL

identity theft

>10005.0 megabyte equals 10 gig
Wanna know how I can know you are a human ?

>found
Jamal...

I usually contact local police if I don't have better idea how to contact owner (when you find a phone, it's better to wait for somebody to call it and so on).

If they are vintage like this, it is likely they have been tossed away and nobody wants them, so I'd look if they have anything that looks like one would miss it and if not, keep them.

Nice old part damn. Oldest I have in my pseudocollection (scrapheap) is 1.2GB Quantum Fireball.

Rev up that USB to IDE bridge, because we want to know what's on them!

Put them back in the street.

Check if they work, then eBay them. Depending on the drive they can be worth a lot to the right buyer, for example industrial or medical IT sector.

use them in retrocomputing projects or throw them on ebay for $20-$30 each and undercut scalpers, sub-2GB drives are worth their weight in gold at this point

search for bitcoin

>16 heads
That's really just parameters they give you to bullshit a BIOS designed during the MFM era.

oh, right! 10 GB.

they're useless.

OP: you could sector scan them if you have a couple of weeks to waste. see if you can spot any file headers.

OP here.

Holy shit I found 100 bitcoin!!!

why are these threads always full of underage Sup Forumstards and gamer bros

Run photorec over them
Post results

testdisk, it once helped me to fully recover a formatted HDD

>cylinders
>heads
>sectors
>master/slave jumper
Fucking hell I feel young again

Test them out and if they're dead disassemble them for investigation.

Send some to me.
My PO box is: V4B 3A2

check if they work and if there are interesting files.

ITT

>bought 2 HDDs for 2€ at a flea market with some other older hardware, they are 80GB SATA and 160GB IDE. Didn't even expect them to work
>have been working with no issues

put it on the street and wait for some idiot to pick it up

I remember that some time ago people bought old SD cards in the hope to find some lewds on them. iirc ebay banned selling used SD cards shortly after the hype

>Remember those?
Yeah, we still use em here at work.

Harddrive domino is fun.

The magnets inside HDDs are really powerful neodymium magnets. I'd definitively take those out, if you need magnets for something then they are great.

One trick you can use if you ever unscrew something or work on computers is to glue a magnet like that to the bottom of a piece of cardboard. Just place screws or anything on it and they will "stick".

Give it back Jamal

Search into them for sensitive data.

Before giving them back jamal, setup a sandbox environment, you wouldn't like to get anymore STD, and search for interesting stuff.
Post finidings

wipe your prints off them and return them to their original position.

Nigga don't be retarded.

Once a friend gave me a pretty old HDD that he scavenged from the junkyard.
I was like from a Win98 machine. I found a couple of pornos embedded in powerpoint presentations

check ebay to see if they are worth anything, some people need donor drives.

if nothing else, get the magnets out and use the platters for art or whatever, they look cool if you stick them to your wall.

Oh boy another rp thread. Ok, so you are gonna go and connect them up to view the contents, but you will post 20 different things to lead up to that. (this is called roleplay?)
>this kills the fun
/thread

Testdisk for diagnoses and if they're borked then try GetDataBack; I'm using it right now to salvage my Chinese cartoons from a drive that somehow lost the MFT AND the mirror between being ejected and being plugged back in.

open them up and look for them bitcoins!!!!!!!!!!! report back to us when you are a bitcoin millionaire

Never had a good experience with Maxtor disks. Everyone in my office had Maxtor external drives for extra storage and by the end of the year, only two hadn't died and taken everything that wasn't backed up with them.

Remember?
I still have a few PCs running ancient control software with 20GB Maxtors.

Cum on them

> mine burst
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False. CF cards and SD card adapter are a thing now, nobody cares for those old shits. Unreliable and slow.

maybe if they would be SCSI drives

>wipe drive
>put into old computer
>install windows with no password and FBI background and fake shortcuts to fake FBI programs/folders
>i mean like really make that shit believable
>leave system outside local news station

>make those shortcuts lead to some shoddy GUIs made in Visual Basic with functions like TRACK IP ADDRESS, MURDERER DATABASE etc

Dig out your ide2sata connector and start working thru Ole Joe's BBS Porn stash and Lotus spreadsheets.

Mine's dead. Just wanted to resurrect my retro gaming machine a few days ago. RIP 3.2GB Maxtor...

If shipping wasn't a problem, I'd take the whole pile off your hands.

see what's on them OP

>that sad feel when this actually would work

>TO DELETE
> RUSSIAN COLLUSION
> CLINTON PODESTA EMAILS
> ALIEN EVIDENCE
> GOLF RUMORS

holy shit

Bro dont plug in a harddrive if you dont know where it was plugged in before, thats how the cia niggers will get you

1. Search for Bitcoin wallets
2. Find porn
3. Recycle them

Oh man imagine the news
> LEAKED MOTHER DRIVES FROM FBI COMPUTER TOWERS SHOW THAT THEY WE'RE ACTIVELY COVERING THINGS UP
> Sources say that highly sophisticated hacking tools have also been leaked along with new compression technology that can compress gigs of information down to a few bytes