[rescue] nuking from orbit
Bran Tregare
rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 30 03:30:02 CDT 2001
At 09:15 PM 8/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:08:48PM -0400, G W Adkins wrote:
> > This is ridiculous. 1 low-level format/verify pass from a real
> utility, and
> > the data's GONE... Forever.
>
>You've never seen REAL data recovery professionals at work, then.
>The only TRUE way to make SURE that its gone, is to grind the disk
>into powder.
I have to agree with Bill here. I've briefly gotten to use a hardware data
recovery unit that you pull the circuitboard of fthe drive and hook this
units electronics up to.... Took a drive that had been "destructively"
written to with a random pattern of gibberish 12 different times and this
unit was able to recover a good portion of the data from the media. this
was back on an old MFM drive, and as I understand it, with the right
hardware and pulling the platters out of the bubble, there's almost a 90%
recovery rate with some of hte newer hardware recovery units out there.
they are expensive as hell, so generally only dedicated data recovery
companies and governments have them.
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