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

[Niall O Broin]

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).   The exact amount of damage 
> done would

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.


Niall