> Sadly, just formatting a hard drive won't get the job done. I
> have been involved with a company that "recovers" data that has
> been erased, reformatted, and written over. Their specialty is
> in the field of forensic discovery for criminal and civil
> matters. A big hammer is the only for sure way to keep someone
> from being able to recover it.
Even that is not an absolute guarantee, if someone wants the data bad
enough.
However, a decent 'scrubber' program that re-writes the entire surface many
times with different, random data, is pretty darn good.
Randall
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