Yeah, but after running several cycles of cleaning software, you need NSA level hardware. And lets be realistic here, do you really care if someone recovers your porn stash? And also realistically, who's going to bother recovering data off a hard drive. The first thing I do with a new-to-me drive is to format it.
It'd be easier to just go through your trash. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW I once filmed here: > > <http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/> > > and I asked one of the techs what the best method of hard drive security > was if (say) I was selling a computer 2nd hand. His answer was simple > and straightforward: take the hard drive out and destroy it by hammering > nails through the platters. That is apparently the only way to be 100% sure. > > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
