On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 23:25, Oliver Lange wrote: > Well i have read an article about a topic called 'restformatierung' (German), > which means something like 'remaining formatting'. If you physically open a > harddisk and connect it to some special diagnostics equipment, it might be > possible to find out how the magnetic particles on the disk have been before > they were overwritten to the actual state, but this is not guarateed > to work for all and every bit, and it requires very special equipment, > and AFAIK, the harddisk itself is gone forever after doing that. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
Here is some fodder: Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory Peter Gutmann Department of Computer Science University of Auckland http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=473 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
