This thread has been very interesting, and I thank all who have
helped. So really there is no way to safely protect the information I
have on this month old drive. It holds multiple online bank account
numbers, passwords, 3 stock accounts, passwords and similar personal
and company info that I would not want the next guy who buys this off
ebay or wherever it ends up after TransIntl gets it back.
I had hoped the IBM 40 GNX would have a better track record then one
month before clicking and scratching on startup and till now. Plus the
fun of reinstalling 10.2, I have heard of Carbon Copy but not perfect,
where is conflict catcher for Jag ?
Maybe TransIntl deals in poor products, this was my 1st buy from them
and they have brushed me off with 2 phone calls and 1 e-mail saying the
right person is not there to handle the RMA. Now it seems the only
protection is to eat the drive cost to protect the data.
The zeroing 7 times sounds good but how hard would that be to break??
Thanks again for all the help
Geoff
On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 17:37 US/Alaska, Obi-Wan wrote:
> On 11/19/02 3:54 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Spew
> into the Cybertrough:
>
>> Obi-Wan wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well, there is, but you'll lose out on the trade-in value: an
>> industrial
>> shredder will pretty well take care of any data recovery issues you
>> might have.
>>
>> This is, in fact, the preferred way of some corporations to 'surplus'
>> old HDD's. That's why my ex-Motorola 7600 came with no hard drive in
>> it...
>>
>> Then if you want to be showy about it, about a half-pound of thermite
>> will do it, too. ;-)
>
> This is VERY true. In fact Lawrence Livermore Labs does shred/compact
> their
> drives after they are done, but that is only for internal computers
> drives,
> and this guy hired me to work on his home network. Thermite is also a
> fine
> (a bit gaudy though) method. ;-)
>
> I think the original poster wanted to send their drive back on an RMA
> though. He he.
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