On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:44:44PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:51:29PM +1000, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - > ATP wrote: > > I'll only be at this company for another 2 weeks, so I don't care > > about the OS and stuff. My personal data which I was just about to > > back up and write to CD is going to be hard to replace. > > If you let the command complete, you've got essentially no hope. You > now have a hard drive completely filled with zeros and only zeros.
At which point it becomes the realm of forensics type people, who can sometimes at least find traces of the previous data there. But... $$$ -Mary. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
