Great. The companies I worked with charged $500 per megabyte. I am sure you'll spend that to prove whatever point you are trying to make.
Let me repeat this one more time; I have worked with several of these companies in the past who have recovered data from flooded and burnt hard disks. I also worked with incidental formats and such. I am not making this up. On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:55:16AM -0800, new_guy wrote: > Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > > bullshit. > > > > I decided to put my money where my mouth is :) > > I bought a 80GB, Western Digital IDE hard drive. $60 USD. Attached it to a > Windows XP laptop (usb-ide bridge), initialized it, created one (1) primary > partition, formatted it NTFS and copied an older subversion repository to > it. I documented and screen-shot the entire process. > > I then booted the laptop with an OpenBSD 4.2 install CD and selected the 's' > option and ran dd like this on the hard drive: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c > > I called three (3) well-known data recovery companies. Two of them said > recovery was not possible after the dd procedure, one of them said they'd be > willing to try so long as no other data recovery company had opened the HDD > case and offered to do a free analysis in one of their ISO certified labs. > I'm sending the drive off tomorrow, I'll let you know in a few weeks how it > turns out. > > Brad > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/delete-deleted-data-tp14560809p14604134.html > Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
