You could also try an oversized Alnico magnet... Works every time!
Sam
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From: Quinatwork@xxxxxxx [mailto:Quinatwork@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:09 AM
To: Avid-L Members
Subject: Re: New File Recovery method
In a message dated 7/31/02 12:02:58 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
remery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Actually, every file you ever put on your computer is there until you
set it on fire and do a tribal type dance around it.
I reformatted an old drive in dos, then used a recovery program on it
and found over 94,000 useable files on it.
That's not completely true. Only the files you wish to get rid of are still
there. Just try and recover that critical script or EDL and it's either
crosslinked or over written.
I am a fan of Norton's pre-Symantec Wipe-Info utility. It overwrites your
drive with 1's then 0's until there's nothing else there. There is even a
Mil-Spec setting. Of course that one takes a while, but it seem to
thoroughly obliterate everything.
Of course there is the method Carl related a while back about smashing the
platter with a hammer, but that's a wee bit extreme. ;-)
Quin
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