On Tue, April 26, 2011 2:30 pm, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > Unless that method actually melts the plastic and not merely remove > the metal reflective coating it doesn't actually erase the CD. (You'd > have to replace the coating to read it, but the data is not stored in > the metal.) Unless it's a CD-R/RW.
I would wager there's enough damage done to the surface in the process to render it fairly difficult to read. Of course, CDs are even easier to destroy than hard drives, so it's really a moot point. -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: N7TOX Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
