I wouldn't have thought so, since its mostly just a line down the centre of
the disk that gets damages. You would expect the other parts to retain there
magnetization, so, at least in principal, data could be recovered off the
remains of the disk.
Joe
On Friday 08 July 2005 15:51, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 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
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