shredding files on a flash drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:51:43AM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.  Go forth and study on your own
> disk if you like :-)  The reason is that once the platters are
> removed, they can never be aligned in the same way that they were
> manufactured.  Thus, an multi-platter hard disk data is unrecoverable,
> by any means...

You might need a clean room, then clean the platters and install them in
the same model drive casing as before, but I suspect it ought to work
most of the time.

Not that I think I could do it myself.  A data recovery company on the
other hand probably could.

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Len Sorensen
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