On 11/19/02 12:27 PM, "Dan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > Ah, but Obi-Wan Kyle, what does it take to actually retrieve 'real' data > from a zeroed-once (or twice or thrice) drive? Is there a practical way > to do it without going through a pretty serious HW recovery effort? I > assumed the OP merely needs to ensure the IBM refurb factory or a later > user of said HD won't stumble upon some corporate secrets (or whatever.)
What I recommend to clients that have security issues is to use Magneto Optical or CD/DVD drives to save the really sensitive info. And then burn the media when they are done with it. I have a client that works at Lawrence Livermore Lab here in the Bay Area. That is how he handles his data. That way it is portable and destroyable. There are several consumer level disk recovery utilities on the market that will do 100x what...say Norton Unerase is capable of. What Shawn King pointed out is true as well. Drive Savers (also local to me) will recover any drive for between $800-3000 or so. They have capabilities that I wish I had sometimes. They can resurrect data from machines that have been submerged, or caught on fire. All I am saying is that there is no real safe way to be sure that your data is 100% unrecoverable, which is what the person was asking. That's all. -- ============================================================== Kyle H. Hansen Apple Certified Technician Apple Solution Expert Macintosh Server Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================== -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
