[ILUG] [OT] Data recovery from a damaged hard drive

[Andres Jimenez]

2005/7/8, Brian Foster <blf at blf.utvinternet.ie>:
>   | From: Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie>
>   | Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:51:37 +0100
>   |
>   | On 8 Jul 2005, at 15:35, Niall Walsh wrote:
>   | > awful lot of work to make all data on a drive unrecoverable (afair US
>   | > military emergency destruction involves acid while regular destruction
>   | > obliterates the drives by explosion).
>   |
>   | A member of this list gets his company's old drives cut in two with an
>   | angle grinder. I'd say that's a pretty reliable means of destroying data.
> 
I always thought the easiest way would be fiiling the disk with
useless data (movies, music, whatever), erase and filling again for a
few times.
Because it's data what we want to destroy, isn't it?

-- 
Andres Jimenez