Ron,
I use to work for a hard drive company. When someone had a drive that had classified
data on it. Yes it was to be distroyed to protect the data. So what
you should do is contact the drive company and tell them what your issue is. Then
they will (Should) give you specific instructions on the process. Most
likely they will tell you to send a letter in on the company letter head. Then you
will describe the exact nature of the data. ie.. plans for a F15 etc. Then an
Return Mecherdise Authorization should be issued.
Who is the drive made by??
S
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On 4/14/2000 at 8:18 PM Ron DuFresne wrote:
>I'd always heard the US Federal spec for declassifying a drive required it
>be destroyed?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ron DuFresne
>
>On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Gregory Hicks wrote:
>
>> If I remember correctly, the magic number of over-writes is 6. Less
>> than this many overwrites leaves the data subject to recovery.
>>
>> I haven't done it (I don't have the equipment), but the US Federal spec
>> for declassifying a drive requires you to do this number of random
>> writes before you can say that the drive is 'declassified'... Of
>> course, if you are truly trying to declassify a drive, the best way is
>> with a 16# sledge...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gregory Hicks
>>
>> > From: dreamwvr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:55:50 -0600
>> >
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > not sure if one can recover data that has been low level scrubbed too
>> > many times but.. i did read a article while on business on the East
>> > Coast and then a lay over in Toronto where a Toronto co has invented a
>> > process to recover low level formatted data from disk. The process was
>> > using the remanent magnetic signatures.. thing is if he encrypted and
>> > scrubed that way i am not sure this would work.. of flooded the disk
>> > with all nulls and then encrypted and then attempted magneto read..
>> > then scrubed and continued.. then randomized writes then scrubbed with
>> > nulls and so on and so on .. but 'seriously' doubt that process the
>> > person you are talking about did. if so not sure that this would help..
>> > but it might. it was in the Toronto main newspapers computer section
>> > in the last few months.. sorry but seem to not remember anymore
>> > specific days when in a specific city on the road. oh well seems the
>> > memory here has cleared itself as well. so if you uncover a means to
>> > remember data in the braincells that you only thought you forgot ..
>> > please let me know;-))
>> >
>> > Regards,
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