On Nov 12, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Cotty 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.
Nuke it from orbit, that's the only way to be sure. I seem to remember a guy offering a prize for any data recovery firm who could recover a drive that he'd wiped by simply zeroing it out in one pass. I'm too lazy to look it up, but last I heard there hadn't been any takers. Take that to mean whatever you like :) Dave -- 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.
