on 11/11/02 9:16 PM, Amber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there anyway for the data to be recovered from a zeroed drive ? I > would think it would be pretty difficult for the average Mac user.
I think that it takes very specialized expensive equipment to recover a zeroed drive. The kind only emergency data recovery companies, or the FBI would have. I've never read anything about it, but I would assume they would hook up the drive to a special very sensitive controller that would look at all the zeroes on the zeroed drive, and try to tell which zeroes used to be zeroes, and which used to be ones. I guess that a zero that was previously a one might seem just a little bit less zeroey than a zero that was formerly a zero. If you want to be super safe, you could use one of the programs that writes over the blank areas of the disk 10 or more times with random patters of ones and zeros. But then again, if I was a top secret government agency I'd write and distribute a disk wiping program that would secretly send the data that was being wiped to me. I mean, If people are using the program, they must have something to hide... =o) -John -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:imac-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:imac-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:imac-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
