On Sunday 06 August 2006 13:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: >> Ross Vandegrift wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> > > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot >> > > > the >> >> This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I'm not sure if you >> completely understand the situation. I *DON'T* want data to be >> recovered from the drive, and because I'm returning it under warranty, >> I want the data on it to be destroyed. > >I wonder about returning it under warranty. >If the data has sufficient sensitivity, it might be easiest >to eat the cost of a new replacement drive. The net-cost >would be reduced by the time spent trying to destroy the data. > >If you do retain it, are there mechanical shredders that would >chew up a disk drive? Yeah, I know there are, just are they >easily and cost effective to consider.
Well, now, theres always that handy-dandy 4 lb blacksmiths maul. Doesn't everyone have one of those? ISTR I have 2, one for each hand if I really need to work something over. Unforch, my ambi-dexterity in former years seems to have gone away over the last 10 or so. :-) -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
