Data controllers must also analyze the context in which the data is presented, as well as the risk of re-identification. Not only that, but technical methods for performing de-identification are not prescribed by law, but rather are often left to the discretion of the data controller
While the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will not become binding until 2018, its provisions considerably expand privacy rights by imposing rigorous obligations on data processors and controllers that span breach notification, data anonymization and trans-border data transfers
Then I could see for myself if the new drive worked or if the problem was really the disk controller on the notebook’s motherboard