I never asked for any help, I was merely throwing in my 2 cents worth that I feel 
you are being excessively paranoid. If you were half as smart as you think you are 
you would have reallized that I was not the OP with the problem. Let's face it, the 
only way the OP can be absolutely certain is to totally destroy the drive. 
That's the way I have handled my old drives. But that's not what he wanted to do.







On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 9:48 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>I apologize for offering help. You obviously needed it, and as to the lack of intent 

>on your part and the fact that I had my mind reader turned off, I only wanted to 

>make you ask yourself, To what degree of security you want to remove this info?

>And I am sorry that I waste my valuable time trying to  help. As far as CIA and 
underestimating. 

>I have software that is exactly what the FBI, CIA, and White house security uses 

>and it is openly available to anyone on the Internet that wishes to pay for it. 
It 

>is not some big secret and I have used it to recover files on h/d's that had corrupted 

>partitions, had been formated, and even some DEAD drives that had to have their 
platters 

>placed in different drives (in a clean room) to even spin them up. For a fact there 

>are major companies that specialize in do this for more corporate oriented problems. 

>And of course you don't remember the NIXON tapes that had been erased multiple time 

>and recorded over and virtually all of the original conversations restored to clarity! 

>By the way I build my first analogue computer in 1967. That was long before I worked 

>at Bell Labs in Broomfield, CO. If insults and childish posturing is your intent 

>I think is needs to be taken to a more appropriate environment that here at annoyances. 

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