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To: Spots who wrote (568)10/30/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110648
 
Spots, if an area on the disk is ACTUALLY overwritten with different
data, you can consider prior data erased. (I used to do that kind
of testing). But, as you pointed out, what if the darn computer only
pretends to have written? Good point. If I had any data on a disk
I was that worried about, I'd nuke the whole disk drive. <g>

G.



To: Spots who wrote (568)10/30/1998 8:52:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 110648
 
You mean a format c: /u command will not wipe all data? Then I guess Nuts&Bolts ZERO is the only way to wipe the disk.



To: Spots who wrote (568)10/30/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110648
 
Thats interesting. I had a link to a company that did data recovery. They had samples of destroyed computers, some dumpped in lakes, fires, dropped off cliffs. They recovered ALL the data from the HD, even the computers that were blobs of melted plastic. Interesting site, too bad I lost the bookmark, I would have posted it. Some cool pictures there.



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