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Originally Posted by downquark1
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That would be to do with just
how you wipe it.
If you mean running FDISK and Format then you may be surprised to hear that if you give me your drive just after you have formated it, I can not only get back all the data you had before the format, but also a whole load of data that was deleted before the format as well.
That's just using comercially available tools. Now, moving on to 'specialist' tools, you could format your drive, then throw it down the concrete stairs to ensure head damage and the drive not running again. But.... I could then send the drive to some nice friendly mates at a certain data recovery department, who would then remove the 'discs' from inside the HDD and read them directly (with proper expensive tools I might add).
So... give it up in amnesty, or risk having it 'found' at a later date.