Put my Gf's fears to rest - With out the HDD they can't see her nude pics

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dwell

pics?
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The images are kept in non-volatile RAM, and yes, freely available to the guys in the repair shop, HDD or not.

Be sure to show your GF this post. It's very important that she knows this risks involved and that you lied to her.
 

eits

Lifer
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So embarrassing details aplenty: A few months ago my GF decided to surprise me with a few naughty pics. I of course kept them on my computer.

Well now, I need to send my computer in to get something still under warranty replaced. I double checked with costumer service and they assured me I didn't need to send my hard drive.

My GF is flipping out and convinced that if I send it in some pervy computer tech is going to find the pictures and post them all over the internet. I keep trying to explain to her that this will not happen and with out the HDD they have nothing.

Please Anand tech, do me a favor and back me up on this. If I have the hard drive, they don't have the pictures.

Non-nude pics of GF to follow if she is convinced. (since I know without this promise the first 15 posts will all include the phrase "pics?").

zombie computers, man...
 

JS80

Lifer
Oct 24, 2005
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Show her the computer doesn't boot up without the hard drive.

Yea, but the service center can plug in an empty HDD and if his computer has greater than 1GB of RAM then there is no doubt it's temporarily still being stored there if he's viewed the file recently.

OP how much RAM does your computer have?
 

bobdole369

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Dec 15, 2004
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God damn it. Now you have her freaking out about the SD cards. Seriously this came back to bite me in the ass.

She really should be. My wife and I took an artful photo on a point and shoot (just some casual and very hard to actually see nipple stuff). About that time she updated the SD card for that point and shoot - so into the digital picture frame it went.

I don't know how, but we still cannot remove that nipple pic from the card. No matter how many times we overwrite it - the nipple pic shows up on the digital picture frame. There are no pictures left on the card, but that frame picks em up and displays them anyways. It was actually quite funny because her mom noticed the nipple and pointed it out and she was like "WTF I totally deleted that picture" wrote 0's, filled the card with other non-nipple pics, deleted, formatted, wrote 0's again - wham, every single pic that was on that card shows back up, including the nipple one. At this point its fairly blurry. Its the weirdest thing, but the fix was just to destroy the SD card and get a brand new one. Now she will only do nudes on film - that we develop together, so no surprise nipples anymore

oh and no pics of my wife. Fuck you guys. srsly
 

RESmonkey

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She really should be. My wife and I took an artful photo on a point and shoot (just some casual and very hard to actually see nipple stuff). About that time she updated the SD card for that point and shoot - so into the digital picture frame it went.

I don't know how, but we still cannot remove that nipple pic from the card. No matter how many times we overwrite it - the nipple pic shows up on the digital picture frame. There are no pictures left on the card, but that frame picks em up and displays them anyways. It was actually quite funny because her mom noticed the nipple and pointed it out and she was like "WTF I totally deleted that picture" wrote 0's, filled the card with other non-nipple pics, deleted, formatted, wrote 0's again - wham, every single pic that was on that card shows back up, including the nipple one. At this point its fairly blurry. Its the weirdest thing, but the fix was just to destroy the SD card and get a brand new one. Now she will only do nudes on film - that we develop together, so no surprise nipples anymore

oh and no pics of my wife. Fuck you guys. srsly

On the digital frame's internal memory or the SD card?

If SD card, just pop in PC and run Derrik's Boot and Nuke on it.

edit = on second thought, I'm not too sure DBAN supports memory cards.
 
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bobdole369

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On the digital frame's internal memory or the SD card?

There is no "user accessible" internal memory. It's on the SD card.

I used MANY different products, possibly even DBAN. After just about every attempt I also used recovery SW which found all the same pics that the frame kept showing.

I'm 80% sure the frame doesn't use the file system, but reads the card directly bit for bit, hence the slowly degrading pictures.
 
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There is no "user accessible" internal memory. It's on the SD card.

I used MANY different products, possibly even DBAN. After just about every attempt I also used recovery SW which found all the same pics that the frame kept showing.

I'm 80% sure the frame doesn't use the file system, but reads the card directly bit for bit, hence the slowly degrading pictures.

a couple zero fills should do the trick, not sure how anything will remain after that
 

bobdole369

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Dec 15, 2004
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a couple zero fills should do the trick, not sure how anything will remain after that

Trust me - I've been there. The only thought is that maybe my SD reader wasn't actually writing all those zeros (and 1's). SD cards aren't hard drives. It's not magnetically stored.
 

MotF Bane

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She really should be. My wife and I took an artful photo on a point and shoot (just some casual and very hard to actually see nipple stuff). About that time she updated the SD card for that point and shoot - so into the digital picture frame it went.

I don't know how, but we still cannot remove that nipple pic from the card. No matter how many times we overwrite it - the nipple pic shows up on the digital picture frame. There are no pictures left on the card, but that frame picks em up and displays them anyways. It was actually quite funny because her mom noticed the nipple and pointed it out and she was like "WTF I totally deleted that picture" wrote 0's, filled the card with other non-nipple pics, deleted, formatted, wrote 0's again - wham, every single pic that was on that card shows back up, including the nipple one. At this point its fairly blurry. Its the weirdest thing, but the fix was just to destroy the SD card and get a brand new one. Now she will only do nudes on film - that we develop together, so no surprise nipples anymore

oh and no pics of my wife. Fuck you guys. srsly

Sounds like the picture frame is the problem.

Pics of wife?
 

bobdole369

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Dec 15, 2004
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Sounds like the picture frame is the problem.

Pics of wife?

Already answered above:

"No pics of wife, Fuck you guys...srsly"

Think about it for a minute, If the pictures on the SD card are "deleted" and overwritten, than how exactly is it getting them? My point to the OP - SD cards are much more to worry about than the hard drive. It seems that ghost images stay on them a lot longer than you might expect.
 

MotF Bane

No Lifer
Dec 22, 2006
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Already answered above:

"No pics of wife, Fuck you guys...srsly"

Think about it for a minute, If the pictures on the SD card are "deleted" and overwritten, than how exactly is it getting them? My point to the OP - SD cards are much more to worry about than the hard drive. It seems that ghost images stay on them a lot longer than you might expect.

your disclaimer is irrelevant. this is ATOT. pics will be requested. pics will be supplied.

have you tried another SD card in that digital frame? if the card has been completely wiped, the pictures have to be in the digital frame. when you eliminate the impossible...
 
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